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A new poll demonstrates strong support for amending the U.S. Constitution to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a popular vote model.<\/p>\n

Under the Electoral College \u2014 the archaic system of selecting the president of the United States \u2014 states are given electoral votes based on how many members of Congress they have. Candidates obtain these votes by winning statewide races, or, in the case of Nebraska and Maine, by winning individual districts. <\/p>\n

In most circumstances, the Electoral College selects the same winner a popular vote model would. But a handful of times in U.S. history \u2014 including in the 2016 race won by President Donald Trump \u2014 the Electoral College has selected a winner who did not win a majority or even a plurality of votes, choosing the second-place candidate instead.<\/p>\n

Although other pathways to implementing a popular vote system are being explored, the most lasting and legally sufficient way to enact such a model would be through a constitutional amendment. According to an Economist<\/em>\/YouGov poll published on Tuesday, a majority of Americans are in favor of such an amendment.<\/p>\n

The survey found that and replace it with a popular vote system. Only 23 percent of Americans didn\u2019t like the idea, while another 21 percent said they weren\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n

Across the entire 21st century so far, more Americans than not have preferred changing the system of picking the president to a popular vote model. Only in 2016, when Trump won the presidency, did majority support slip to a plurality. After that, voters\u2019 sentiments shifted again, with a majority backing the change ever since.<\/p>\n

The dip in support for the idea was likely due to Republican supporters of Trump wanting to preserve the system that helped him win the White House. Following years of decision-making leading to lower approval numbers, that even a narrow plurality of GOP-leaning voters support shifting to a popular vote system for the presidential election, with 43 percent backing an amendment for that purpose and 40 percent opposed.<\/p>\n

Notably, Trump himself once opposed keeping the Electoral College in place. In 2012, when it initially appeared on Election Night that former President Barack Obama might win the election with only the Electoral College and not the popular vote, Trump wrote on social media that \u201cthe electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even in the week after he won in 2016, Trump insisted he still didn\u2019t like the Electoral College, preferring future elections to be decided by popular vote. Said Trump in an interview:<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m not going to change my mind just because I won. I would rather see it where you went with simple votes. You know, you get 100 million votes and somebody else gets 90 million votes and you win.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Days later, Trump reversed his position. He has vehemently defended the Electoral College ever since.<\/p>\n

The Economist<\/em>\/YouGov poll also asked respondents their views on terminating the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which places term limits on presidents. Trump has frequently toyed with the idea of running for a third term, despite the amendment limiting him to the two he has already served. <\/p>\n

\u201cNo person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,\u201d the text of the Amendment states. <\/p>\n

In spite of that directive, Trump has claimed in the past that \u201cthere are methods\u201d around the 22nd Amendment. He also once stated in an interview that he is \u201cnot joking\u201d about the possibility of running again.<\/p>\n

Americans largely favor keeping the amendment in place, the poll found, with and only 16 percent in favor of lifting its restrictions. Even a majority of people who voted for Trump in 2024, 56 percent, said they want the two-term limit to remain.<\/p>\n

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Americans back abolishing the Electoral College by a 2 to 1 margin, the survey shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"\nNew Poll Finds Most Americans Back Adopting Popular Vote to Select President - Smart Moving Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=542\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Poll Finds Most Americans Back Adopting Popular Vote to Select President - Smart Moving Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Americans back abolishing the Electoral College by a 2 to 1 margin, the survey shows.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=542\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Smart Moving Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-18T20:07:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=542#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=542\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/ec0d70042821fd684a174c8d0e8becfa\"},\"headline\":\"New Poll Finds Most Americans Back Adopting Popular Vote to Select President\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-18T20:07:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=542\"},\"wordCount\":676,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=542#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/0948703349251060194383dd7bd9a230.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Interesting\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=542#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=542\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/smartmovinghome.com\\\/?p=542\",\"name\":\"New Poll Finds Most Americans Back Adopting Popular Vote to Select President - 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