Mr Puggsly said:
I would agree to getting rid of the Electroal College if we split the country. Maybe split each state, dems can have the socialist side. It would be like the cold war, I love it. |
US would fall apart without California and New York, the "red states" are all swimming in debt and full of unemployed, unskilled people. The "red USA" aside from maybe Texas would get real ugly, real fast. You'd have a lot of young people trying to flee out of there.
As to the OP's point, to be honest I don't know if it's really worth all the trouble to change it since it would probably turn into a gong show. Democrats can win both the popular vote and EC, they just need to run a better campaign than what Clinton did. The demographics are still in their favor long term because every 4 years more and more old people die off and more and more young people come into the voting sphere.
They cannot run uncharismatic candidates though. Obama, Sanders, and Bill were likable, Hillary was not. In politics that stuff matters. Most people even if they vote on issues, get a lot more energized/enthused when they genuinely like the candidate and usually end up dragging 1-2+ more people with them to the polls, and that makes a difference.
