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Majority of voters want to eliminate Electoral College: Poll
Washington Examiner ^

Posted on 09/23/2020 12:32:40 PM PDT by FR33DOM4ME

A simple majority of registered voters are on board with abolishing the Electoral College for presidential elections in favor of the popular vote.

According to a new Hill-HarrisX poll released Tuesday, 51% of respondents said they would be in favor of weakening the influence of states without dense populations on the outcome of the election, whereas 49% believe it should be kept "to distribute voter power among all 50 states."

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


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To: FR33DOM4ME

Wouldn’t believe a bit of it. Just another fake poll. Considering that this story is less than worthless, why is posted here?


61 posted on 09/23/2020 1:16:42 PM PDT by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: FR33DOM4ME

That’s why this is a Republic.

Screw ignorant people...


62 posted on 09/23/2020 1:16:45 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: FR33DOM4ME

Argue all you want. You’ll never get the smaller population states to pass a constitutional amendment elimination the college. It takes 3/4s. Fat chance.

51% of Americans also believe that the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.


63 posted on 09/23/2020 1:17:37 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: FR33DOM4ME

A simple majority has another name; ‘mob rule’.


64 posted on 09/23/2020 1:19:11 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches.)
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To: Dutch Boy
A majority of the people being polled don’t understand what the Electoral College is and why it was put in place.

Exactly.

65 posted on 09/23/2020 1:19:16 PM PDT by Not A Snowbird (I trust President Trump.)
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To: FR33DOM4ME

And thank God the founders were smart enough to loathe a pure democracy.


66 posted on 09/23/2020 1:23:37 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: wareagle7295

Good idea. They probably think that’s the way to make the change. Then they will shut their pie holes.


67 posted on 09/23/2020 1:24:41 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: FR33DOM4ME

LOL you may want it but it is not going to happen.

They polled the blue states and got the answer they wanted but ignored the constitution.

It would take a constitutional amendment to make this change and the red states are more numerous than the blue states and WILL NEVER LET THAT HAPPEN!!!!

STUPID LIBERALS AND MAINSTREAM PRESS LIARS.

I’M STILL LAUGHING AT THEIR FANTASY AND IGNORANCE.


68 posted on 09/23/2020 1:30:50 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: FR33DOM4ME

There’s a process to amend the Constitution. Have at it liberals. That’ll keep them busy for 30 unfruitful years.


69 posted on 09/23/2020 1:31:11 PM PDT by dead (Trump puts crazy glue on their grenades and they never know it until after they pull the pin.)
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To: FR33DOM4ME

Just goes to show how poorly our educational system is doing.


70 posted on 09/23/2020 1:32:21 PM PDT by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: FR33DOM4ME

A lot of people are ignorant as to how power is split between the federal government and the states.


71 posted on 09/23/2020 1:32:21 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: Dutch Boy

“A majority of the people being polled don’t understand what the Electoral College is and why it was put in place.”

They clearly understand why it was put in place, to prevent mob rule by a very few states who had large populations, the mob...

Well, it is this same mob who wants to rule and can’t get it done because of the EC so they want to destroy it.

Nope, not going to happen.....


72 posted on 09/23/2020 1:33:04 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: FR33DOM4ME

Until the results of this so-called “poll” are published, with the names of the so-called “respondents”, assume it’s bullsh*t.

Why do people keep paying attention to “polls”? did they learn NOTHING from all the “polls” of 2016? Do they have some deep-seated psychological disorder that compels them to be scared / anxious / concerned / uneasy all the time? Does the anxiety make them feel more alive?


73 posted on 09/23/2020 1:33:44 PM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: FR33DOM4ME
The majority don't understand what the EC is all about...they hardly understand our Constitution....50+ years of rotten text books by rotten liberal authors AND not surprising, teachers who had liberal educations...Kids today who have no feeling for their country, its history, or show any true knowledge of how their government works..


74 posted on 09/23/2020 1:33:53 PM PDT by yoe (Vote for President Trump!..Keep America Great and protected by the US. Constitution.)
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To: Obadiah
How do I matriculate to the Electoral College, and how much is tuition?

And do they offer scholarships?

75 posted on 09/23/2020 1:35:48 PM PDT by Shethink13
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To: FR33DOM4ME

Not without a fight. They are pushing us to help the blue cities secede from the country. Without liberal cities, I think the country runs just fine. Most of them aren’t even open and the economy is coming back without them. The cities are merely a drain on our country. Besides, the hate us and tgey gate America. Who needs them.


76 posted on 09/23/2020 1:36:34 PM PDT by jersey117
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To: FR33DOM4ME

And Biden is ahead by 35.


77 posted on 09/23/2020 1:37:30 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Engraved-on-His-hands

No, the Coasts should have to take a new name.


78 posted on 09/23/2020 1:38:14 PM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy Up)
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To: FR33DOM4ME

It’s the epitome of push-polls, as evidenced by how the answers are interpreted. The only way such detailed interpretations, like distributing input across all states, is for them into be contained in the questions, causing hopeless bias.

This poll is utterly invalid on its face.


79 posted on 09/23/2020 1:42:24 PM PDT by mywholebodyisaweapon (Thank God for President Trump.)
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To: FR33DOM4ME

Dohh... of course.. and who cares?

The electoral college is there to PROTECT the minority FROM the majority.

The desires of the mob and the majority are therefore irrelevant.


80 posted on 09/23/2020 1:44:21 PM PDT by Toughluck_freeper
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