December 14, 2013 -  Republican National Committee members have been meeting since summer with Chairman Reince Priebus to come up with a new method of nominating a presidential candidate following the 2012 primaries which is felt dragged on to long. Highlights of the proposed plan include compressing the nominating calendar,  punishing primary and caucus states that jump the set voting order and possibly move the party's national convention to  late June.

The last time that the Republicans held a convention in June, was when the RNC held their quadrennial gathering in June of 1948 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania and nominated New York Governor Thomas Dewey for President.

Republicans Party members have long complained that the 20 primary presidential debates held in 2012 was way to many. The plan now is to greatly reduce the number of deabtes. Any candidate that would violate the set upon number of would be stripped of one third of their delegates to the national convention.

The first four states in the nominating process would continue to be in the order of voting Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Nevada. Those contests would be held in the month of February. Any state that tries to hold their contest before March 1st would see their total number of delegates slashed to just 9 people. For smaller states they would see their delegate total slashed to one third or which ever is smaller.

Delegates will be awarded proportionally for those states voting during the first two weeks of March. After March 15 states could continue to award the delegates proportional or make them winner take all contests. A late June date for the convention would mean that the primary season would end in May because RNC rules requires all delegate lists to be submitted 35 days before the convention.

The primary reason for moving the convention to late June, is so that the eventual nominee will have a full two extra months in order to have access to general election campaign funds. In 2012 Mitt Romney was not able draw upon his general election funds until after the RNC convention which was the last week in August. This is considered to one of the reasons for Romney's loss as he was outspent heavily during the summer by President Obama and the Democrats.