Fifty percent of voters prefer electing the president by popular vote, compared to 34 percent who think the results should be based on the Electoral College, a new Politico/Morning Consult poll reveals.
Sixteen percent had no opinion on the election system.
Here are the highlights from the survey:
- 30 percent of Republican voters favor presidential elections being based on the national popular vote, compared to 57 percent who prefer the Electoral College.
- 72 percent of Democrats prefer basing presidential elections on the national popular vote, while 16 percent favor the Electoral College.
- 46 percent of independents favor basing presidential elections on the popular vote, compared to 29 percent who prefer the Electoral College.
- 42 percent of voters approve of the job Donald Trump is doing as president, compared to 55 percent who do not.
- 36 percent of all those polled said they would either probably or definitely vote to re-elect Trump if the presidential election was held today, compared to 55 percent who probably or definitely would vote for someone else.
The poll, conducted March 22-24, surveyed 1,994 registered voters. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.