Moving Oklahoma's Primary Date?

Right now it seems like there is to much of a rush to front load the presidential primary contest. Efforts are being made in a bill authored by Rep. Trebor Worthen (R-OKC) to move the date of the primary from Tuesday Feb. 5th to Saturday Feb. 2nd. The idea seems like a good one because it will garner the state more attention from Presidential candidates. Oklahoma and South Carolina would be the same day on the Republican side, and the sooner state would be the only contest on the democratic side.

However on the democratic side this creates quite a problem because the Democratic National Committee passed a rule that will take away any delegates from a candidate who campaigns in a state (other than IA,NH,NV, and SC) that holds it's primary before Feb. 5th. So for democratic attention, it could serve as a deterrent rather than a impetus to campaign in Oklahoma. Ironically Chairman Howard Dean would be forcing the candidates not to take part in his '50 State Strategy' Right now it appears as if there would be no drawbacks on the Republican side.

It is unclear if lawmakers would opt for a Republican primary on the 2nd, and Democratic primary on the 5th. However that solution would double the costs.