Agree on "Preferential voting" but I think a more important problem than replacing first-past-the-post is replacing winner-takes-all. There's a bunch of ways t

Agree on "Preferential voting" but I think a more important problem than replacing first-past-the-post is replacing winner-takes-all. There's a bunch of ways to do it (some more complicated than others), but run an election in larger regions that will elect three candidates. Suddenly nearly everywhere will elect Dems/Repubs in batches of 1-2 or 2-1, and instead of half the country feeling disenfranchised for losing a 49-51% vote, you limit the "wasted" votes to 25%. And heck, there might even be room in the mix for a 3rd party candidate (independent or centrist) to snag 25% here and there, and start putting chinks in the division caused by the 2-party system. Sadly not as workable for the Senate or President, but would be fine for Congress.