Reply #32: No, it's not a bad compromise [View All]

[liberalpragmatist]

Like I said below, I much prefer a simple nationwide popular vote. Frankly, the only real downside that I can find is that it would make election nights a hell of a lot less fun (Watching the states come in is like a sports match. Who the hell wants to sit around just waiting for the results to come in?).

But if it had to be a proportional split, that's fine with me.

Even better would be to abolish live electors and award electoral votes automatically to the nearest tenth of a percent. And establish a 40% threshold in the EC so that it won't always go to the House. If nobody gets at least 40% of the EV, then there would be a national runoff between just the top two candidates.