KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Republican National Committee approved a plan on Friday seeking to avoid a stampede of early primaries in the next presidential campaign by pushing back the contests one month to extend the nominating season and produce a nominee who is tested in all parts of the country.
For the first time, Republicans would award some delegates on a proportional basis, abandoning the winner-take-all approach that often brought an early end to the primaries. The new rules represent a major shift in how Republicans will select their nominee and the biggest overall change to the system since 1968.
“Two thousand eight was just a monster of a primary process. You had so many states leapfrogging over each other,” said Michael Steele, the national chairman. “We needed to bring some order to the process.”
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