I have a problem with some of their polling results...
Consider my state, South Carolina:
A survey of 800 South Carolina voters conducted on January 17–19, 2011 showed 71% overall support for the idea that the President of the United States should be the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states.
Voters were asked "How do you think we should elect the President: Should it be the candidate who gets the most votes in all 50 states, or the current Electoral College system?"
By political affiliation, support for a national popular vote was 64% among Republicans, 81% among Democrats, and 68% among others. By gender, support was 81% among women and 59% among men. By age, support was 81% among 18-29 year olds, 71% among 30-45 year olds, 72% among 46-65 year olds, and 63% for those older than 65. By race, support was 68% among whites, 77% among African-Americans, and 74% among others (representing 4% of respondents).
The survey was conducted by Public Policy Polling, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 1/2%.
Check your state's poll the NPV home page (scroll down a little, polls are on the right). Do the polling results jibe with what you know about your state?
The polls aren’t asking people if they think the Electoral College sucks.
The National Popular Vote bill preserves the Electoral College and state control of elections. It changes the way electoral votes are awarded in the Electoral College from the current state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but since enacted by 48 states), under which all of a state’s electoral votes are awarded to the candidate who gets the most votes in each separate state.
In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state’s electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided).
A Washington Post, Kaiser Family Foundation, and Harvard University poll shows 72% support for direct nationwide election of the President.
In a recent Gallup poll, support for a national popular vote, by political affiliation, is now:
53% among Republicans, 61% among Independents, and 71% among Democrats.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/150245/americans-swap-electoral-college-popular-vote.aspx
Other polling company results:
In 2011, 83% of Tennessee voters polled agreed that “The presidential candidate who gets the most votes always should be the winner,”
Every political demographic group across the state favors changing to a system driven by the popular vote, the poll showed.
When Republicans were asked, “How should the President be elected, by who gets the most votes in all 50 states or by the current winner-takes-all system?” 73% of them favored the popular vote.
Of all Democrats asked the same question, 78% favored the popular vote system.
When respondents who agree with Tea Party values were asked, 72% of them preferred the popular vote.
Noted Political Science Professor Dr. Terry Madonna of Franklin and Marshall University (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) released the results of a poll showing that two out of three Pennsylvanians believe the President should be the candidate who “gets the most votes in all 50 states.”
http://nationalpopularvote.com/pages/misc/madonnapolltopline_20110327.php
When asked about abolishing the Electoral College, which National Popular Vote would NOT do:
In a poll by Penn Schoen Berland, 74 percent of Americans thought the Electoral College should be abolished.
http://www.slideshare.net/PennSchoenBerland/aspen-ideas-poll-7-910
In a poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion, 64 per cent of respondents thought that whoever gets the most votes should be elected president.
http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/39408/americans_want_to_scrap_electoral_college/
Most Americans don’t care whether their presidential candidate wins or loses in their state. . . they care whether he/she wins the White House. Voters want to know, that even if they were on the losing side, their vote actually was directly and equally counted and mattered to their candidate. Most Americans consider the idea of the candidate with the most popular votes being declared a loser detestable. We don’t allow this in any other election in our representative republic.