So would you need an amendment to end gerrymandering and one to split states electoral votes?You need to get rid of gerrymandering first, otherwise awarding electoral votes by CD is going to open up the system to gerrymandering the Presidency, which is not something I can see being universal across 50 states.
Or a Supreme Court decision.So would you need an amendment to end gerrymandering and one to split states electoral votes?
It's more than that. Gerrymandered to hell Texas awards almost all its EVs to the GOP while California has its CDs drawn by an independent commission. Apply this across the country and you see that awarding EVs by congressional district encourages blatant gerrymandering and heavily warps the results of Presidential elections making them far less democratic. You could end up with a candidate losing the popular vote by 6% and still winning the Presidency, just like it can potentially happen in the House. One party is going to always be at the disadvantage because of this, creating a huge barrier for this to happen universally.The biggest difficulty is that all the big states have to adopt the method at once. If California is splitting its vote, but Texas is still winner-take-all, Texas has more clout than California.
Make all states split their electoral votes like Maine and Nebraska
If done by congressional district, the results would favor the GOP in elections of the past few decades, as I explain at https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...tes-yet-other-states-do.433955/#post-16312984 So it's really hard to see the Democrats agreeing to this.
Or a Supreme Court decision.
The republicans wouldn’t win a single house majority between 1952 and 1994 so it really depends on whenIf done by congressional district, the results would favor the GOP in elections of the past few decades, as I explain at https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...tes-yet-other-states-do.433955/#post-16312984 So it's really hard to see the Democrats agreeing to this.
The republicans wouldn’t win a single house majority between 1952 and 1994 so it really depends on when