[Palter]

Why does it seem that politicians can work really well together and fast when it comes to getting their parties reelected, but they cant can anything done that's productive to the citizen?

[The_Media_never_lie]

Exactly.

The politicians:

cannot secure our borders.
cannot balance our budget.
cannot solve Medicaid/SS time bomb

But they can scheme and change the rules to get power for themselves?

[Bronurstomp]

I don't see besides some obtuse argument about balance of power argument as a valid when it comes to elector apportionment. The Constitution is clear that the states set how they send their electors. On balance this is a big win for the Pubbies if all the states adopted it. Of all the beefy electoral college states we would pick up way more than we would give by losing in states like Texas and Florida. It's actually the perfect solution to the popular vote\mob rules nonsense talk. I saw an article about this if this was adopted in 2008 , McCain would have won the election. The way this could be perfected is not a simply apportionment by population but by CDs won. That way the cities could not overpower the small CDs. I think this is what actual the PA legislature is talking about.