Professor
Interesting post.My own view is that the decision regarding electors in this country may be a boat that will never sail.
Here is your passsage:
"...That ship has already sailed. The laws of every state require that electors be chosen by statewide popular vote (except in Nebraska and Maine where some of the voting is by Congressional district.)..."
Apparently, the boat did not sail from Nebraska or Maine yet, as you point out.
I would suggest that it might be a fun Republican red state game to play to try to rig the selection of electors going forward.
One can envisage various different kinds of initiatives, including selecting elecctors by congressional district, one possibility your passage suggests.
Why not? At least that elector's vote might then have a hint of a local majority voter preference flavor.
But really, what do local preferences really count for, in a national, (and frankly also global) Presidential election?
Let's put it this way: The American electorate has no capacity for intelligent electoral decisionmaking merely by mass or even by direct voting, and voting here gets no one, anywhere here really, what they think they had wanted, or what they think they deserve, as their rights, from the local, state, or federal government.
This post is already too long.
All the best
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