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A survey of 1,039 Wyoming voters in 2011 showed 69% overall support for the idea that the President of the United States should be the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states.

The National Popular Vote bill is 61% of the way to guaranteeing the majority of Electoral College votes and the presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the country, by changing state winner-take-all laws (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by...

A successful nationwide presidential campaign of polling, organizing, ad spending, and visits, with every voter equal, would be run the way presidential candidates campaign to win the electoral votes of closely divided battleground states, such as Ohio and Florida, under the state-by-state...

Now, a presidential candidate could lose despite winning 78%+ of the popular vote and 39 states. With the current state-by-state winner-take-all system of awarding electoral votes (not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution, but later enacted by 48 states), it could only take winning a bare...

With National Popular Vote, when every popular vote counts and matters to the candidates equally, successful candidates will find a middle ground of policies appealing to the wide mainstream of America. Instead of playing mostly to local concerns in Ohio and Florida, candidates finally would...

The current presidential election system makes state recounts more likely. All you need is a thin and contested margin in a single state with enough electoral votes to make a difference. It's much less likely that the national vote will be close enough that voting irregularities in a single area...

Support for a national popular vote has been strong in rural states None of the 10 most rural states (VT, ME, WV, MS, SD, AR, MT, ND, AL, and KY) is a battleground state. The current state-by-state winner-take-all method of awarding electoral votes ( not mentioned, much less endorsed, in the...

With the National Popular Vote bill, states are using their exclusive constitutional autonomous power to change how they use the Electoral College to elect the President. Each state is deciding to award their electoral votes to the winner of the national popular vote to guarantee the presidency...

Without a constitutional amendment, no state could accurately reflect a 51/49 vote. Presidential electors are people. Their vote cannot be divided.. Every voter, everywhere would not be equal. The candidate with the most votes could still lose. Any state that enacts the proportional...

Now, by state laws, 48 states use the winner-take-all method and 2 use a district winner method of awarding electoral votes. The electors are and will be dedicated party activists of the winning party who meet briefly in mid-December to cast their totally predictable rubberstamped votes in...

A "true" democracy is a form of government in which people vote on all policy initiatives directly. Using the Electoral College is not what keeps us from being a direct democracy. It does not make us a representative republic. Unable to agree on any particular method for selecting...

Support for a national popular vote is strong among Republicans, Democrats, and Independent voters, as well as every demographic group in every state surveyed recently. In the 41 red, blue, and purple states surveyed, overall support has been in the 67-81% range -in rural states, in small...

In Gallup polls since 1944, only about 20% of the public has supported the current system of awarding all of a state's electoral votes to the presidential candidate who receives the most votes in each separate state (with about 70% opposed and about 10% undecided). Support for a national...

Direct democracy is a form of government in which people vote on all policy initiatives directly. Using the Electoral College is not what keeps us from being a direct democracy.