2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Pelosi pans superdelegate system [View all]karynnj
(59,503 posts)but in no way does it deserve as much weight as California!
Personally, I think the first several waves of states should be the purple states. These are the states that really determine who wins. In all but a landslide election, we win the blue states and lose the red states.
As to the way the GE should be done, I like John Anderson's and Birch Bayh's proposal that would result in the popular vote nationwide being used. To avoid needing a constitutional amendment, they propose that states pass legislation that says they will cast their votes for the winner of the popular vote, and that would kick in only after enough states pass it to give them the 50% plus 1 electors. This prevents the state's full representation going to someone who might have won the state by 50.001 %.
Doing that would change the entire game - big cities would matter - even if they are in safely red or blue states.