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Poll: Americans Prefer Popular Vote Over Electoral College
Monday, October 24, 2011 at 10:50AM | Justin Duckham | Share Article | Email Article | Print Article The majority of Americans appear to support having the popular vote, and not the electoral college, be the determining factor in Presidential elections.
According to a new poll from Gallup, 62 percent of Americans would approve amending the Constitution to emphasized the popular vote, as opposed to only 35 percent who would like to keep the current system intact.
Divided by party, 71 percent of Democrats, 61 percent of independents and 53 percent of Republicans would prefer the change.
The poll was conducted among 1,005 adults between October 6th and 9th. The results were released Monday.
Full results can be found here.
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