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GOP’s new rules set up long slog to nomination

By Michael Levenson

 |  Globe Staff  

  December 15, 2011

Mitt Romney, who once hoped to land a knockout blow in January, is now bracing for a protracted, months-long battle against Newt Gingrich, pointing to new election rules that make it mathematically impossible for any candidate to clinch the nomination before April 24. Under the rules, which Romney has cited in several recent interviews, most states that vote before April 1 will award their delegates in proportion to the tally, rather than giving them all to the candidate who wins a simple majority.

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