[crystalis]

I'll take mudslinging and rumor-mongering over harmful subsidies to e.g., corn.

[waterlesscloud]

Things like subsidies to special interest groups would become even more common since the payoff in terms of votes would be higher. Increase the corn subsidy and you don't just buy Iowa but corn farmers everywhere.

[abrahamsen]

That would be around 1 million potential voters out of 235 million total. My suspicion is that attention would shift towards numerically larger special interest groups.

[anigbrowl]

Reforming the electoral college isn't going to make the legislature disappear.