That's an absolutely valid addition on the topic of reducing the temperature of politics and allowing new compromises to be found. The only difference, fortuna

That's an absolutely valid addition on the topic of reducing the temperature of politics and allowing new compromises to be found. The only difference, fortunately, is that getting RCV (or other reforms) implemented for state elections doesn't requiring changing the US constitution. On the other hand, the fact that both the Republican and Democratic parties hold multiple state government trifectas, but only Maine has adopted RCV, means that both parties seem to be resisting reform. I wonder if it would be possible to have a cross-party grass-roots campaign to support primary challengers for every state legislator (from any party) who doesn't want their state to copy (or surpass) Maine's achievement. Even if that only ended up working in safely blue states, that would still raise awareness and wake people up to the Prisoner's Dilemma that the voting system puts them in. On the other hand, if the reform ended up being associated with one party, that would just make it another issue that the country was gridlocked on. Perhaps Republicans need to see it safely working in a red state first.