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A September 2020 Gallup poll showed support for amending the U.S. Constitution to replace the Electoral College with a national popular vote rose to 61% with 38% opposed, similar to levels prior to the 2016 election, although the partisan divide continued with support from 89% of Democrats and 68% of independents, but only 23% of Republicans. [93]
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, every state has considered a National Popular Vote bill, but 18 districts constituting 209 electoral votes have passed them into law.
Text of the National Popular Vote Compact Bill; Every Vote Equal: A State-Based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote – read or download the book for free; FairVote Archived 2012-10-04 at the Library of Congress Web Archives; Common Cause; Electoral College legislation at the National Conference of State Legislatures
The closest that the United States has come to abolishing the Electoral College occurred during the 91st Congress (1969–1971). [1] The presidential election of 1968 resulted in Richard Nixon receiving 301 electoral votes (56% of electors), Hubert Humphrey 191 (35.5%), and George Wallace 46 (8.5%) with 13.5% of the popular vote. However, Nixon ...
In the United States, a presidential candidate is elected not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which grants electoral votes to ...
The Electoral College recognizes and supports an important principle not supported by a national popular vote for the top officials of Article II. We are a unified country of 50 independent states.
Senator Hubert Humphrey in 1956 proposed a compromise where electoral college votes would have been distributed based both on state pluralities and the national popular vote. Two electoral college votes would have been awarded to the candidate with the plurality of the popular vote in each state, and the remaining electoral votes would then ...
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is the solution to our ineffective current presidential election system.