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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.
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 ...
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
When the Electoral College meets Monday, its detractors hope it marks the beginning of the end of a system that twice this century has vaulted the loser of the popular vote to the presidency.
The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is the solution to our ineffective current presidential election system. National Popular Vote would end the turmoil in presidential vote counting Skip ...
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 ...
(Reuters) -In the United States, a candidate becomes president not by winning a majority of the national popular vote but through a system called the Electoral College, which allots electoral ...