Big news on the Florida presidential primaries next year

Ryan Day at the FloridaPolitics blog has this highly interesting story about the State of Florida primaries:

     Two proposed committee bills to move back the date of Florida’s presidential primaries have sailed through legislative committees in as many days.
     The House version of the proposal, PCB RCEC 15-05, was introduced and approved in the House Rules Calendar & Ethics Committee without questions or debate in under three minutes on Monday, resulting in one of the fastest gavel-to-gavel hearings this observer has ever seen.
     In the Senate, there was slightly more discussion, but not much. SPB 7036 was briefly presented by the Senate’s Chief Attorney Jonathan Fox.

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     Moving the dates back would allow Florida Republicans to apportion their delegates in a winner-takes-all fashion, rather than proportionately according to the share of the vote each candidate receives. That would make the state’s primary a huge prize for either Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, who would be heavily favored to win their home state and take home Florida’s hundreds of delegates all at once [emphasis added].