In a senate with one vote majority and a congress with nine votes majority you are not going to get bills passed that are problematic for some of the representatives within your party. You need larger majorities to do that.
This is not an article about the specific circumstances in the US. Suffice it to say that, while you make good points, I stand by my assessment that things are more hopeful for electoral reform in the US some time in the next decade, than they have been in my 25 years of engagement with the issue. That doesn’t mean hopes are very high in an absolute sense, but they’re high enough to be noticeably higher.
In a senate with one vote majority and a congress with nine votes majority you are not going to get bills passed that are problematic for some of the representatives within your party. You need larger majorities to do that.
This is not an article about the specific circumstances in the US. Suffice it to say that, while you make good points, I stand by my assessment that things are more hopeful for electoral reform in the US some time in the next decade, than they have been in my 25 years of engagement with the issue. That doesn’t mean hopes are very high in an absolute sense, but they’re high enough to be noticeably higher.