I would vote for her if I was not gerrymandered out of her district. If a dem ever complains about republican re-districting, just show them a map of Maryland.
That loses the locality of representatives. They would no longer represent an actual specific area.
But arguably that's a good thing. Arguably, the federal level of government should not micromanage anything to the neighborhood level. The Federal government would ideally only address inter-state issues. Local representation encourages reps to seek pork for their district, and inflate government spending in a thousand ways.
I question how you'd fairly choose representatives, though. Take Illinois. 18 representatives, currently 13-5 Dem/Republican. 10 of the districts are Chicago. What if with proportional voting you ended up with the same 13-5 party split, but due to state-controlled selection rules, all of the candidates came from Chicago? Congress would get filled with even more big city RINOs, and the specific concerns of rural voters would be almost entirely unrepresented.
Our current districting process is ripe for improvement or replacement. Getting rid of districts entirely is an idea I haven't heard before, even though it's kind of obvious in retrospect. I'm not sure about it, but it has potential.
I would vote for her if I was not gerrymandered out of her district. If a dem ever complains about republican re-districting, just show them a map of Maryland.
I still like just having a copmuter generate congressional districts:
https://bdistricting.com/2010/
The problem is that this actually gets rid of gerrymandering. Very few people in power actually want to get rid of gerrymandering.
Interesting.
That loses the locality of representatives. They would no longer represent an actual specific area.
But arguably that's a good thing. Arguably, the federal level of government should not micromanage anything to the neighborhood level. The Federal government would ideally only address inter-state issues. Local representation encourages reps to seek pork for their district, and inflate government spending in a thousand ways.
I question how you'd fairly choose representatives, though. Take Illinois. 18 representatives, currently 13-5 Dem/Republican. 10 of the districts are Chicago. What if with proportional voting you ended up with the same 13-5 party split, but due to state-controlled selection rules, all of the candidates came from Chicago? Congress would get filled with even more big city RINOs, and the specific concerns of rural voters would be almost entirely unrepresented.
Our current districting process is ripe for improvement or replacement. Getting rid of districts entirely is an idea I haven't heard before, even though it's kind of obvious in retrospect. I'm not sure about it, but it has potential.
Not perfect isn't so bad, when the status quo is gerrymandering.