Poll: More Voters Favor Popular Vote Over Electoral College

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.

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