They can dream about this….
It ain’t gonna happen ….
Switching to the winner gets the job, like every other vote for office , would lock Republicans out of the Office of the President……Democrats lost the election TWICE even though had MORE votes thewn the declareds winner…..
It’s the states …..
Note the actually cumulative vote that picks a American President…
There IS an effort to get the states to approve this thru the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact ...
Only 16 state’s and Wash. DC (Blue States) have approved the effort which is 36.1% of the EV’s….
270 EV’s/51% is needed to move to a straight popular vote election of the American President if the Compact would be legal in its action…
That effort IS floundering in the state’s pending that would be needed ….
The Electoral College has played an outsize role in some recent U.S. elections. And a majority of Americans would welcome a change to the way presidents are elected, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults (65%) say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency. A third favor keeping the current Electoral College system.
Public opinion on this question is essentially unchanged from last year, though Americans’ support for using the popular vote to decide the presidency remains higher than it was a few years ago.
The Electoral College has played an outsize role in some recent U.S. elections. And a majority of Americans would welcome a change to the way presidents are elected, according to a new Pew Research Center survey.
Nearly two-thirds of U.S. adults (65%) say the way the president is elected should be changed so that the winner of the popular vote nationwide wins the presidency. A third favor keeping the current Electoral College system.
Public opinion on this question is essentially unchanged from last year, though Americans’ support for using the popular vote to decide the presidency remains higher than it was a few years ago.
The current electoral system in the United States allows for the possibility that the winner of the popular vote may not secure enough Electoral College votes to win the presidency. This occurred in both the 2000 and 2016 elections, which were won by George W. Bush and Donald Trump, respectively.
Partisan views over time
Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents are far more likely than Republicans and Republican leaners to support moving to a popular vote system for presidential elections (82% vs. 47%).
The share of Democrats saying this is nearly identical to last year but higher than in January 2021, a few weeks before President Joe Biden was sworn into office after winning both the Electoral College and the popular vote….