It's a shame that something as important as an election gets turned into a childish "do it my way, or else" event. The last time I checked, no political party had the "right" to dictate election terms to any governmental body. As long as its taxpayers' money funding the election, then the governmental body - as the duly authorized entity to do so - determines when and how taxpayer money will be spent on conducting an election.

How and when any state wants to hold its primary - and the mode (open, closed, semi-open/cosed) - is a state choice. It's the responsibility of the party to adapt, not the other way around. If that's not to the party's liking, there are legal ways to seek change. Thumbing your nose at any state and its voters is tantrum-like behavior.

If the DNC wants to tell FL Democrats that their input into the selection of the party's candidate won't occur unless the State of Florida conducts its election according to the terms and conditions of the DNC, then FL Democrats are letting their party disenfranchise them.

If the Republican Party tries the same stunt, the same would hold true for them.

What happens next time when California or New York decides it should hold its primary at an earlier date - for whatever the state's reason? Should they seek "permission" to do so from the DNC and RNC? Who is the person within the DNC or RNC who should have that power to give such "permission?" What are the odds that the DNC and RNC would even agree?