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The GOP Presidential Nomination race now moves on to Florida (January 31) following Newt Gingrich’s shocking victory in South Carolina. Here is the polling average for Florida, which shapes up to be a pivotal contest in the GOP Presidential race. We’ll keep it updated as new polls come out.

Here is video of University of Virginia Political Science Professor Larry Sabato discussing the GOP Presidential Primary “calendar chaos.”

Sabato said Iowa and New Hampshire will likely move their contests up to early January 2012 ahead of Florida, who has moved to January 31. But he also said there is some talk New Hampshire might actually move up to December 2011 – which would really turn everything upside down!

And the GOP Primary Calendar merry-go-round continues:

CNN Political Ticker: South Carolina’s Republican presidential primary will be held on Jan. 21 of next year, two GOP sources tell CNN.

South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Chad Connelly will formally announce the date later this morning.

The move is designed to put space between South Carolina and Florida, which bucked national Republican Party rules last week and decided to hold their primary on Jan. 31.

The updated calendar is likely to push the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary even earlier into January as they seek to protect their role as the two leadoff contests in the presidential nominating process. . . . Read More

Add Missouri to the list of states likely to have an early Presidential Primary in 2012 – February 7:

AP: Missouri is poised to hold an early presidential primary next year, a move that could inject more confusion into the 2012 election calendar by prompting other states to elbow to the front of the campaign line.

Lawmakers are moving closer to the end of a special legislative session without rescheduling the primary now set for Feb. 7, as national party officials would prefer. The February date would make Missouri’s vote the second presidential contest in the nation, a day after Iowa’s caucuses and before the New Hampshire primary. Saturday is the deadline for states to schedule their 2012 primaries. The prospect of action by Missouri lawmakers before then appears slim. . . . Read More

To make it even more confusing, to avoid losing 50% of its delegate to the 2012 GOP Convention, Missouri may hold the primary on February 7 but actually allocate their delegates to the convention through a caucus system in March – thus not violating the RNC rules about holding their delegate allocation contest prior to March 6.

Wow.

This is going to speed things up, and make it much tougher for any candidate still thinking of getting in the race – like Sarah Palin, Chris Christie, Rudy Giuliani, etc. If Florida chooses January 31 as their primary date, it could mean voting in Iowa around Christmas – just three months away. Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina will undoubtedly move their contests up to remain the first four, meaning Iowa and New Hampshire would come around the first of January at the latest.

CNN: Florida is now expected to hold its presidential primary on the last day in January 2012, a move likely to throw the carefully arranged Republican nominating calendar into disarray and jumpstart the nominating process a month earlier than party leaders had hoped.

Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon told CNN on Tuesday that a state commission exploring potential primary dates is likely to choose January 31 to hold the nominating contest.

If that happens, it would almost certainly force the traditional early states of Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada to leapfrog Florida and move their primaries and caucuses into early- to mid-January.

“We are expecting to meet on Friday from 11 to 12, and I expect that they will pick January 31 as Florida’s primary date,” said Cannon, who helped select members of the nine-member commission.

States are required to submit the dates of their primary and caucuses to the Republican National Committee no later than Saturday, but most states are expected to choose their dates by the close of business Friday.

Florida’s move would directly violate RNC rules that forbid any state other than the first four “carve-out” states — Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina — from holding a primary before March 6. . . . Read More

H/T Carlos