This is a must read analysis from TalkingPointsMemo because it illustrates the foolhardiness (stupidity) of pursuing an electoral strategy to change federal campaign finance laws. (The major assumption in this plan is that you have to elect more Democrats, along with a few Republicans.)
A closer look at the numbers shows why the GOP House majority is basically impenetrable until the next redistricting, and maybe beyond. It was never more stark than in 2012, when Democrats received about 500k more votes nationwide than Republicans but still ended up with substantially fewer seats. Some of this is due to an extremely effective gerrymandering effort by Republicans after the 2010 election. But it's not only that. Democrats are also increasingly concentrated in small geographical areas, which greatly amplifies the effect of gerrymandering and is also a significant and growing issue in itself....
Here, TPM has taken a look at three states that are among the most populous in the country and that figure prominently in presidential elections. Democratic House candidates in Pennsylvania and Michigan won more votes overall in 2012 but in each state the party ended up with fewer seats than the GOP. In Ohio, Republicans garnered more votes overall in 2012 and 2014; in each year, their percentage of seats won was vastly higher than their share of the vote.
Republicans did better in all three states in 2014, but the distribution of House seats remained the same. And this pattern, if not always to the same degree, shows itself in numerous states.
It's a good illustration on how virtually unwinnable the current House is for Democrats. As currently constituted, the chamber is relatively immune to big swings in popular opinion and voting support.
Now, of course, all this wouldn't really be a problem if you could really convince sufficient numbers of Republican candidates to endorse campaign finance reform. But the likelihood of that is somewhere between slim and nil. Republican's positions on that have hardened over the years. They are less likely to support systemic reform (indeed, any reform) today than they were in the past.
Admit defeat MayDay.US, EveryVoice, and move onto more productive strategies.