The biggest issue with our country - GERRYMANDERING

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7. Some swing states are trying to use gerrymandered districts to change the electoral college.

That is, certain states (swing states) would not throw all the electoral votes to omne presidential candidate but would allow each congressional district to cast its own independent vote. This could cause serious problems for Democrats in presidential elections.


From US News:

A handful of states—unsurprisingly, battleground states controlled by the GOP at the state level but captured by President Obama in the presidential races—are considering changing the way they allocate electoral votes, basing the outcome not on the popular vote across the state, but those within each congressional district. The winner-take-all system almost all states now have is surely not entirely fair, since someone who got 49.9 percent of the vote could walk away with no electoral votes. But assigning electors by congressional district is even less fair, since it would typically diminish the power of voters in big cities (which tend to go Democratic). In Pennsylvania, for example—a commonwealth Obama won by five points—the new scheme would have assigned Republican Mitt Romney 18 electoral votes, and Obama only five.

The national popular vote would not affect gerrymandered House seats, but it would address the potential issue with presidential elections..