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Support for Abolishing Electoral College Hits Historic Low in Gallup Poll
Cybercast News Service ^ | December 6, 2016 | 3:33 PM EST | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 12/06/2016 3:51:56 PM PST by Olog-hai

In the wake of an election in which Hillary Clinton won the popular vote but Donald Trump was elected president by winning the Electoral College, a survey showed the lowest percentage of people ever in a Gallup poll saying they would support amending the Constitution to eliminate the Electoral College and decide presidential elections by the popular vote.

“This year, for the first time in the 49 years Gallup has asked about it, less than half of Americans want to replace the Electoral College with a popular vote system,” Gallup said in an analysis of its poll results.

Gallup’s latest poll on the issue, conducted November 28-29—three weeks after this year’s election—showed that 49 percent said they would amend the Constitution so that the nationwide populate vote would decide the presidential election. Forty-seven percent said they would keep the Electoral College system. …

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; electoral; electoralcollege; gallup; galluppoll; poll; republicnotdemocracy; trumpwinsagain
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To: JediJones

By your logic, California would have Forty Senators,


41 posted on 12/06/2016 8:59:18 PM PST by heights
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To: JediJones

Congressional districts are not counties. They are boundary units drawn by population. The example I pasted was not particularly representative of the districts around NYC but, I think it showed the imbalance of popular vote counting.


42 posted on 12/06/2016 9:41:09 PM PST by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: Olog-hai
More proof it's not being properly taught in Middle and High School History and Government classes.
43 posted on 12/06/2016 10:33:20 PM PST by ExSoldier ("Terrorists: They hate you yesterday, today, and tomorrow. End it, no more tomorrows for them!)
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To: Col Frank Slade

We keep winning, they keep whining.


44 posted on 12/06/2016 11:12:55 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Olog-hai

Headline of the Day Poll

What motivates faithless electors who refuse to vote for Trump?

Personal integrity: They are following their consciences
Dishonesty: They are Leftists in disguise
Narcissism: They are seeking attention

Read more: http://www.headlineoftheday.com/#ixzz4S8irysK5


45 posted on 12/07/2016 12:37:06 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Olog-hai

I find it ironic that Gallup is taking a popular vote about the electoral college. . .


46 posted on 12/07/2016 2:38:07 AM PST by Fedora
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To: Olog-hai

I would be open to amending the system to something that will allow people like Republicans in California to have a voice while still preventing Democrats from using the fact that they are packed in like sardines in a few easily covered areas to gain an unfair advantage. But yeah, naive conversion to a popular vote would be unwise, especially when Dems get to pick and choose which popular votes they’ll keep or get thrown out by a judge.


47 posted on 12/07/2016 3:14:14 AM PST by jarwulf
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To: jarwulf
I would be open to amending the system

Once the notion to amend the system starts, our country is done. Although the effort at first will be to do something "good", by the time the leftist traitors get done, you will soon be enslaved under a Muslim terrorist Sharia Law hell.

It is what leftist do, they lie and manipulate. In fact, they think they can pull off just about any lie and get away with it. Just look at the last eight years.


48 posted on 12/07/2016 3:58:41 AM PST by politicianslie (What would a terrorist do if he were made POTUS? : Exactly what Hussein Obama is doing)
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To: Olog-hai

This is great news, but fascinating. I would’ve thought that with the lefties and Hillary supporters wanting it abolished and the meme wars about it that support would be lower for keeping it. Maybe some Americans are smarter than I thought.


49 posted on 12/07/2016 8:32:35 AM PST by rhett october
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To: Baynative; All

Great post!

B T T T


50 posted on 12/07/2016 8:33:49 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: stephenjohnbanker

As was pointed out, the stats I clipped reflect New York, but could very well apply in Los Angeles and maybe Houston, too. Those areas could never be over come if the electoral college were to be abandoned.


51 posted on 12/07/2016 8:41:27 AM PST by Baynative ( Someone's going to have to pay for these carbon emissions, so it might as well be you.)
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To: Baynative

No question about it.


52 posted on 12/07/2016 9:48:21 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: metmom

They never explained the Electoral College in high-school civics class in the 1980s, implying that it was some kind of anachronism that was left over from slavery days; they always falsely called the USA a “representative democracy” too. And they always put a positive spin on the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments to boot.


53 posted on 12/07/2016 10:08:27 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: SouthernerFromTheNorth

Surely Boston deserves to be included, which would run the number to an even 12.


54 posted on 12/07/2016 12:10:14 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus

I thought about it, but focused on the most populous counties dominated by liberals (and DC being the ultimate establishment city). But adding more liberal cities makes the margin in the rest of America even more dramatic.


55 posted on 12/07/2016 2:58:49 PM PST by SouthernerFromTheNorth
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