Quote:Proportional representation of the same style most of Europe uses would be good, too.

 

So you don't vote for a candidate, you vote for a party, and the parties get assigned seats by the percentages of votes they get and choose the candidates they want to seat on their own.

 

That would also solve the problem of incumbency as well as the problem of every rep pandering to piddling worthless local issues like the guys from Virginia and Kentucky who refuse to acknowledge carbon dioxide based climate change because it impacts the local economy through coal mining.

 

I think you'd need a constitutional amendment to do that, so it is highly unlikely that it would happen.   However, to get rid of racial (and therefore party) gerrymandering, all you need to do is repeal the Voting Rights Act.   That could be done, easily.   The problem is, there are two powerful constituencies that would block any attempt to repeal it: blacks and the republican party.   There is an unholy alliance between black congresspeople and republicans, which is,

 

"I will give you your safe black district and that will give me safe republican districts all around it.   Take all those black democrats out of my nice white republican district.  You can have them."  

 

That eliminates the competition. 

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