Republican voters
Credit: USA Today
A majority of Republicans incorrectly believes President-elect Donald Trump won the popular vote, according to a new poll.
Fifty-two percent of Republicans in the Qualtrics poll say they think Trump won the popular vote, (emphasis added) The Washington Post reported. Only 7 percent of Democrats say the same thing. Of all respondents, 29 percent say they believe Trump leads the popular vote.
A similar survey conducted by Pew Research found that 19 percent of respondents believe Trump won the popular vote.
Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton currently has more than 2.8 million more votes than Trump.
While Trump did not win the popular vote, he topped Clinton in electoral votes, 306 to 232. The members of the Electoral College will meet on Monday, almost assuredly to seal Trump’s win.
Since Clinton won the popular vote, some Democrats have rallied behind an effort to abolish the Electoral College. Democratic candidates for president have lost the Electoral College while still winning the popular vote two times over the last 16 years.
I don’t trust the integrity of our election process to begin with. However, it is what it is..and citizens are responsible for being informed the best they can. This is not easy considering the mainstream media constantly misrepresents and distorts. That said, this is pathetic no doubt.
Why bother talking about the popular vote when the electoral college system takes precedent in the US elections? There is no proportional representation in the US and Canadian national elections. Hopefully if our leader, Justin Trudeau, keeps his party’s election promise to replace ‘first past the post’, Canada will have a Representation by Population system and we will become a more democratic Democracy.