Although, anybody who has been involved in municipal or campus politics can attest that, at least occasionally, oversimplification and attack ads work in those markets as well.<p>All things considered though, I agree with you.<p>One other thing to overcome though, is gerrymandering.  If we have 10x-100x the number of house districts, the gerrymandering algorithms will have a field day unless we take action to stop them in practice first.