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Friday, August 12th, 2022

Poll: A Majority of Americans Want to Abolish the Electoral College

Author:     Chris Walker
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     August 10, 2022
 Link: Poll: A Majority of Americans Want to Abolish the Electoral College
Stephan:   Here is another report on the unpopularity of the Electoral College, this one about a poll which gives us some objectively verifiable data. I personally support the elimination of the Electoral College. It is a relic created in the 18th century to keep the slave states on board with the Constitution, just like the Democrats made a deal with Manchin to get his vote. The President should be determined by the popular vote, and everyone about the age of 18 should have a vote. Period.
People hold signs reading “count every vote” during a worker’s rally in Copley Square in Boston just before Joe Biden was declared the President-Elect in Boston on November 7, 2020.
Credit: John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe / Getty

More than 6 in 10 Americans say that the Electoral College should be abolished and replaced with a popular vote model for selecting the president and vice president, a new poll shows.

In a Pew Research Center survey that was published last week, 63 percent of respondents backed instituting a popular vote model over the current Electoral College system — the highest rate the organization has seen in support of instituting a popular vote system since at least the year 2000. Only 35 percent of the poll’s respondents preferred keeping the Electoral College in place.

The poll was conducted from June 27 to July 4.

The results of the survey showed a noticeable partisan divide on the question of the Electoral College. While 80 percent of Democratic-leaning respondents backed transitioning to a popular vote model, just 42 percent of Republicans expressed […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Friday, August 12, 2022 at 9:49 am

    The Electoral College is NOT a Democratic institution. I hate it, and think it should be abolished.