Pew: Majority of Americans continue to favor moving away from Electoral College
“More than six-in-ten Americans (63%) would instead prefer to see the winner of the presidential election be the person who wins the most votes nationally. Roughly a third (35%) favor retaining the Electoral College system.” - Pew
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Americans are no longer educated in federalism and republicanism. Sad. The idea was that (1) we are a nation of states, and (2) we need layers of representation to buffer/filter the voice of the masses. The founders did not believe pure democracy was a safe thing to do.
They had good reasons for those convictions and those reasons still hold true.
Views expressed are always my own and not my employer's, my church's, my family's, my neighbors', or my pets'. The house plants have authorized me to speak for them, however, and they always agree with me.
Ironically, the results of the poll remind me of precisely why the Electoral College was instituted; the Founders did not want majority rule. Perhaps the results would be different if the question were posed differently:
Given that sufficient votes exist to elect a President in about the top ten states in terms of population, do you want to have a system where your President will be elected by high population states, and can thus in his policies ignore the smaller states?
Or: do you want to give California an additional six electoral votes, in effect?
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
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