02-28-2023, 05:29 AM
Ombligo wrote:
To do so would require agreement with the legislators in both Idaho and Oregon, plus the voters of both states, plus the US congress.
Not a chance of it getting all that.
If it were easy, then I'd say let Idaho take that bit of Oregon. Shift a bit of NE Wisconsin to the Michigan UP and a bit of the Florida panhandle to Alabama (at least as would have made a difference in 2016... since MI may be staying blue going forward and FL might have been captured red by DeSantis)... A bunch of former swing states never go red again and all but for a few thousand voters being moved under the new state borders... If it could be accomplished it would be an interesting way to undo some of the red state gerrymandering.
I do think a scheme to diminish the Senate power and house gerrymandering what I call the "double double" where you double the number of Senators for all states with population over 1 million and the number of representatives everywhere; the newly doubled reps however are statewide, no districts. (The existing reps would keep their districts... and it'd be problematic for larger states like TX and CA where you have dozens of reps to vote for...)