Florida isn't exactly quaking in their boots about Howard Dean and the DNC's threat to take away their delegates to the 2008 convention if they don't shape up. The Sunshine State seems to have moved its primary to the early January window without a scratch, and South Carolina just recently leapfrogged again to be first.

It's going to take more than penalties to get states to agree. That's the subject of this op-ed in the Miami Herald by FairVote's Ryan O'Donnell.