[EGreg]

The barrier remains regardless of whether you contact your rep, or not. We may as well ask for both.

Multi member districts is not a bad idea for the House of Representatives. Can be done on a local level. But there needs to be a constitutional amendment.

Why not simply switch to a system where a state itself is a giant multi member district, like a parliamentary system?

[meddlepal]

> Why not simply switch to a system where a state itself is a giant multi member district, like a parliamentary system?

Because this isn't software... you can't just "switch" to a different form of government like that.

[brokenkebab]

I'm not an expert in US law, so maybe I miss something, but there are countries which successfully changed their electoral systems, so apparently it's possible.

[defterGoose]

...and attitudes like this are largely why.