Posted on 10/24/2011 9:42:48 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Most Americans say they would amend the Constitution to swap the Electoral College with a popular-vote system to elect the president, a poll indicates.
Sixty-two percent of Americans prefer replacing the Electoral College and 35 percent would keep the current method for electing presidents, results from a Gallup poll released Monday indicated.
For the first time since the disputed 2000 presidential election, the majority of Republicans said they favor amending the Constitution, the Princeton, N.J., polling agency said.
That year, Democrat Al Gore won the national popular vote but Republican George W. Bush wound up with more electoral votes and was elected.
Those who advocate abolishing the Electoral College said they thought the system puts undue emphasis on a small number of swing states, Gallup said. Americans generally agree that the United States should adopt a system in which the popular vote prevails.
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The trouble is you find stupid people everywhere.
If things do not change... the Union is doomed.
LLS
By change I do not mean allowing urban parasites to elect our president by popular concensus in large urban crapholes.
LLS
It’s hard to believe that enough smaller states would approve this.
This nonsense comes up every election cycle. Opportunists on the left recognized the advantage they would have with mob rule, and their silly puppets in the media stir the brew. Truth is, it would be almost impossible to change the Constitution and regress to mob rule. Should the time ever come when the left can do that, there won’t be an America left to save. It will be a reprobate, Occupy cesspool.
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