If Florida and Michigan only receive slaps on their respective hands, the 2016 primary campaign (I'm assuming that President Obama will be renominated without a challenger in 2012) might just start in 2013. The lesson that the states will have learned is that they can set up whatever primary system that they want with minimal punishment from the parties. The Democratic Party barely exists as it is; now it will not even serve the function of regulating the primary calender. The stranglehold that Iowa and New Hamshire have on the process will be broken, but chaos will ensue.