Some depressing news showed up this week in the latest polling from Pew Research. As they’ve been doing since 2000, when George W. Bush won the presidency without winning the popular vote, Pew asked voters if they would prefer to keep the electoral college system in place or move to a popular vote model. And by the widest margin recorded in 23 years, a significant majority said they would like to do away with the Electoral College. And it really wasn’t even close, with the popular vote supporters leading by almost a two-to-one margin. Of course, if a larger number of schools still taught civics in high school, more of these respondents would probably realize you can’t make something like this happen just by wishing it were so.Read More
Poll: Liberals still want to get rid of the electoral college
