You’re right, the sentence you quoted is only a small part of the necessary ingredients for reform; finding a proposal that’s minimally disruptive to incumbents (unless they owe their seat to gerrymandering) is key to getting something passed; and even then, it’s a heavy lift.
The 4 methods I chose here are the ones I think have the best chances, from exactly those perspectives. It’s still a long shot, but IMO realistic enough to be worth talking about.
In a senate with one vote majority and a congress with nine votes majority you are not going to get bills passed that are problematic for some of the representatives within your party. You need larger majorities to do that.
This is not an article about the specific circumstances in the US. Suffice it to say that, while you make good points, I stand by my assessment that things are more hopeful for electoral reform in the US some time in the next decade, than they have been in my 25 years of engagement with the issue. That doesn’t mean hopes are very high in an absolute sense, but they’re high enough to be noticeably higher.
You’re right, the sentence you quoted is only a small part of the necessary ingredients for reform; finding a proposal that’s minimally disruptive to incumbents (unless they owe their seat to gerrymandering) is key to getting something passed; and even then, it’s a heavy lift.
The 4 methods I chose here are the ones I think have the best chances, from exactly those perspectives. It’s still a long shot, but IMO realistic enough to be worth talking about.
In a senate with one vote majority and a congress with nine votes majority you are not going to get bills passed that are problematic for some of the representatives within your party. You need larger majorities to do that.
This is not an article about the specific circumstances in the US. Suffice it to say that, while you make good points, I stand by my assessment that things are more hopeful for electoral reform in the US some time in the next decade, than they have been in my 25 years of engagement with the issue. That doesn’t mean hopes are very high in an absolute sense, but they’re high enough to be noticeably higher.