Electoral college poll by party

[minionofmidas]

I think a nation-wide vote would be more democratic. On the other hand, the EC makes it more fun. :S I would support removing the senate EVs, to make the system more fair. That would be the best reform, probably.

Not at all. If that were done the bullsh!t complaint about large areas controlling the entire nation would actually gain an edge of truth. And I begrudge Republicans that. Seriously speaking, the EC's two BIG drawbacks (large state advantage and small state advantage, so to speak) more-or-less cancel each other out, so to remove one but not the other would make matters worse.

[minionofmidas]

If each state chose its electors by CD instead of having winner take all, it would improve the system a great deal. The reason is that candidates would have to visit more states. The direction in which we are headed is very bad, we could get closer and closer to the point in time where one party has a lock on the electoral college (probably the Republicans). Not that a CD system would be all that great, it would just be a step in the right direction and could be enacted without the lengthly process of amending the Constitution.

A CD system would be a step in the wrong direction. It would cause gerrymandering to be that much more harmful, and would give state legislatures a huge amount of leverage in determining how their state's EVs will be cast.

It would create a huge incentive to take redistricting out of the states' hands, where it really does not belong.