"Winner take all" has not worked, since twice this century the Electoral College winner lost the popular vote. When the Constitution was written, all of its authors assumed individual electors would be elected in their districts. Madison wrote to George Hay, “The district mode was mostly, if not exclusively in view when the Constitution was framed and adopted." Madison & Hamilton advocated for a constitutional amendment to prevent anything other than the district plan. Hamilton even drafted (in 1802) an amendment to the Constitution mandating such, calling for the districts to be formed, as nearly as may be, with an equal proportion of population in each DeWitt Clinton added “which districts, when so divided, shall remain unalterable until a new census of the United States shall be taken.
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