Nearly half of Americans want to get rid of Electoral College

[struggle4progress]

BY JEFFERY MARTIN ON 12/21/20 AT 5:56 PM EST

Almost 50 percent of Americans polled want to abolish the Electoral College, according to data from an Economist/YouGov poll ...

According to the poll, 46 percent of Americans are ready to "amend the Constitution so the candidate who receives the most total votes nationwide wins the election." However, 34 percent of those polled have no desire to change the system, indicating that the Electoral College should remain operable. Those who weren't sure whether the Electoral College should stay or go numbered 20 percent.

Individuals that voted for Biden made up 75 percent of poll participants that indicated the Electoral College should go by the wayside while only 14 percent of those who voted for Trump agreed.

Biden won both the popular and electoral vote during the 2020 election. While Trump received 74,223,744 popular votes and 232 electoral votes, Biden obtained 81,283,485 popular votes and 306 electoral votes. A candidate needs to receive 270 or more electoral votes in order to move forward in the election process. All 50 states have already certified their election results ...

https://www.newsweek.com/nearly-half-all-americans-want-get-rid-electoral-college-poll-1556508

[mucifer]

1. probably the other half don't know there is an electoral college.

[UTUSN]

7. Ya beat me to it!

[sfstaxprep]

2. Too Bad The repubs Don't Care What "The People" Want

Given all the repub States, the chances of getting 2/3rds of the State Legislatures, let alone Both Houses of Congress, to do away with it, are Slim & None. And Slim has left the building.

[bamagal62]

3. Yep. Unfortunately.

[MichMan]

4. Tired about hearing about it constantly without any action.

For at least 4 years, if not longer, there has been a constant amount of hand wringing about the unfairness of the EC. Post, after post, about how we need a constitutional amendment to get rid of it. Polls like this are meaningless.

Democratic leadership needs to back an effort to start the amendment process once and for all, and either put up, or shut up about it.

[struggle4progress]

5. I'd guess it would take a ten year fight. Ultimately, I think it's doable,

but it's not a simple stroll in the park

[onenote]

6. Those voters are not evenly distributed amongst the states

75 percent could favor getting rid of it and there easily could still be a majority (even a significant majority) opposed in 13 or more states, which is all it would take to keep the amendment from being ratified.