2016 Primary Calendar.

[Senator Cris]

Per Frontloading HQ:

January: IA, NH
February: CO-MN-NY-UT, NV, SC, NC, MI
March: CO-FL-MA-OK-TN-TX-VT-VA, LA, AL-HI-OH-MS, IL-MO, AZ
April: MD-DC-WI, CT-DE-PA-RI
May: IN, NE-WV, KY-OR, AR
June: CA-MT-NJ-NM-ND, UT

No Date: GA, KS, ME, NV (?), NH (?), NC (?), SC (?).

http://frontloading.blogspot.it/p/2016-presidential-primary-calendar.html

What do you think? It's correct?

[Mehmentum]

Why is Colorado listed twice?

[Flake]

Why is Colorado listed twice?

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[Grumpier Than Thou]

Hopefully I'll be able to make it home to vote in the PA primaries.

[Phony Moderate]

I really, really, really hope that California isn't held in June. It'd be a return to the bad old days.

[Likely Voter]

Well both parties have agreed to rules for it to be:
Feb. 1 -- Iowa caucuses
Feb. 9 -- New Hampshire primary
Feb. 20 -- Nevada caucuses
Feb. 27 -- South Carolina primary
March 1 -- Super Tuesday

However, they have to get all the state legislatures to agree on all the primaries (moving them in or out of Jan/Feb). Even with penalties, the risk is again some states will decide they want to go before Super Tuesday and then the whole thing snowballs and you end up with IA in the first week of Jan.

Good article on this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/08/25/the-early-2016-primary-calendar-is-now-set-it-will-change/

[retromike22]

I wish they wouldn't hold anything before March. It starts so early

[Mr. Morden]

Per Frontloading HQ:

January: IA, NH
February: CO-MN-NY-UT, NV, SC, NC, MI
March: CO-FL-MA-OK-TN-TX-VT-VA, LA, AL-HI-OH-MS, IL-MO, AZ
April: MD-DC-WI, CT-DE-PA-RI
May: IN, NE-WV, KY-OR, AR
June: CA-MT-NJ-NM-ND, UT

No Date: GA, KS, ME, NV (?), NH (?), NC (?), SC (?).

http://frontloading.blogspot.it/p/2016-presidential-primary-calendar.html

What do you think? It's correct?

That's where things stand now, with current state laws, but it's not going to last.  The RNC has toughened its penalties this time, so it no longer makes sense for big states to defy the party rules.  States like Florida and Michigan, for example, no longer have an incentive to hold their primaries so early, because the super penalty means that they'll have barely any delegates.  However, there's still a chance that a small state which doesn't have many delegates in the first place will throw a wrench in things.  We'll see.

Well both parties have agreed to rules for it to be:
Feb. 1 -- Iowa caucuses
Feb. 9 -- New Hampshire primary
Feb. 20 -- Nevada caucuses
Feb. 27 -- South Carolina primary
March 1 -- Super Tuesday

That's the Democratic calendar, but I don't think the RNC is that specific.  I think the RNC just says March 1 or later for all states except IA/NH/NV/SC, while the chosen four states can schedule themselves for any time in February.

However, I don't think this is going to work, since South Carolina always wants a longer buffer between its primary and those of other southern states.  So, "best case scenario", so to speak, would be something like:

Jan. 25 -- Iowa caucuses
Feb. 2 -- New Hampshire primary
Feb. 13 -- Nevada caucuses
Feb. 20 -- South Carolina primary
March 1 -- Super Tuesday

[Joe Biden 2020]

I wish they wouldn't hold anything before March. It starts so early

I wish they wouldn't wait until March.  Us political junkies like an entire year devoted to elections.  I was very happy in 2008 when we had a January 3 Iowa Caucus.

[Adam Griffin]

2/2014

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http://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/secretary_of_state_kemp_proposes_march_1_primary_for_georgia_southeastern_regional_super_tuesday_primary_

11/2014

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http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/elections/2014-11-22/southern-states-see-opportunity-regional-2016-presidential