Gallup Poll: Americans’ Support for Electoral College Increases Greatly Despite Democrat Whining … Up to 47% from 35% in 2011

AMERICANS SUPPORT FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE INCREASES …

According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans support for the electoral college has increases  from 35% in 2011 to 47%. In the wake of the 2016 Presidential election that saw Donald Trump win in an electoral college landslide 302-232, where Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, many on the Left are moaning as they cannot accept the election results. As Red State opines, some of that shift can be attributed to increased Republican support in the wake of the election results; it’s not like it spiked in the last year.

Despite Democrat whining as Hillary Clinton won the popular vote, there is a reason why the electoral college exists. The Founding fathers established the Electoral College in the Constitution as a compromise between election of the President by a vote in Congress and election of the President by a popular vote of qualified citizens. There are currently a total of 538 electors, corresponding to the 435 Representatives, the 100 Senators, plus three electors for the District of Columbia as provided for in the Twenty-third Amendment. But of course the LEFT has an issue with a system set up by the Founding Fathers and has served this country well as Libs think that populated states like New York and California are more important than the US citizens in states like Idaho and the Dakotas.

Americans’ support for keeping the Electoral College system for electing presidents has increased sharply. Weeks after the 2016 election, 47% of Americans say they want to keep the Electoral College, while 49% say they want to amend the Constitution to allow for a popular vote for president. In the past, a clear majority favored amending the U.S. Constitution to replace the Electoral College with a popular vote system.

This year, for the first time in the 49 years Gallup has asked about it, less than half of Americans want to replace the Electoral College with a popular vote system.

The reason for this shift in opinion is clear: In the aftermath of this year’s election, the percentage of Republicans wanting to replace the Electoral College with the popular vote has fallen significantly.

Currently, 19% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents favor basing the winner on the popular vote, down from 49% in October 2004 and 54% in 2011. Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents already widely favored having the popular vote determine the winner and are slightly more likely to do so now than in the past.

Of course the ignorant whiny LEFT want mob rule. Because we all know they know more than The Founding Fathers, sarcasm intended.