If Gore won in 2000, but Trump still won in 2016 as IRL?

[Skill and Chance]

Suppose the size of the US House keeps expanding over the 20th century to 1000+ members by 2000.
 This would throw the 2000 election to Gore with the same results because the influence of the 2 Senator electors in each state would be much less.  However, despite being way further behind in he PV, Trump still wins the EC because he won states with a majority of Representatives in them, so the Senator electors are irrelevant for him.

Would the reaction to the massive EV/PV split be any different in this world?

[morgankingsley]

Probably more intense at first, due the fact that people wouldn't have been used to the idea of it happening (since it would be 128 years by then), but in the years following, people probably would have been able to move on, for the most part, and probably assume it was a once in a century anomaly, and there wouldn't be as much of a move to get rid of the electoral college.

So worse, but for far less of a duration

Morgan Kingsley -

December 3 2022

[DPKdebator]

Perhaps it would be less polarized in terms of partisanship, but it probably wouldn't change too much in practice.