Support for repealing the Electoral Collegeand moving to a popular voting system is at a record high. Americans continue to worry about the direction of their country.
A new Pew Research Center survey published last week found that 63% of Americans support moving from the electoral college to a popular voting system. The previous record was 62% recorded in 2012.
The Electoral College itself had a record-low 35% approval rating. Dissatisfaction with the Electoral College spread across both party voter bases, with80% of Democratsand 42% of Republicansin favor of the popular voting system.
The study was conducted on 6,174 US adults between June 27 and July 4, 2022. The margin of error is 1.8 percentage points.
The findings come at a time when Republicans are racking their brains over his 2022 defeat of Donald Trump. Thwart the latter with a slate of fake "electors" in the states he lost.
Democrats, on the other hand, still bitterly remember Hillary Clinton's combined electoral college defeat and popular vote victory in 2016. Not only is it your chance to be elected president, but it's also your chance to stop Donald Trump from being elected.
Many in both parties are eager for new leadership. Democrats call for a "generational shift" to purge the party's aging leaders from power in the House, Senate and White House as Democratic voters question the support of Joe Biden and others A growing number of them, including members of parliament, have issued public statements. Senior Democrats are acting with urgency, concerned about what the current political climate demands.
As far as the Republican Party is concerned, polls for the 2024 Republican primary election show that Donald Trump continues to lead, although the same polls show that Trump is likely to step down as president in many cases. He keeps saying we should run someone else for president.
Abolishing the Electoral College may require a constitutional amendment. Alternatively, some proponents are pushing plans to encourage state legislatures to pass laws that would award individual state electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote.
The Senate has now solidified a largely ceremonial process, hoping to avoid a situation like the one that occurred in 2021 when Donald Trump challenged the 2020 results of the election. Discussing changes to the process of counting people's votes, trying to block elections and proof of Joe Biden's victory.
