Popular Vote vs. Electoral College

A Political Divide

On the anonymous opinion app, Aop, the following question was answered by people across America: “How should Presidential elections be decided?”

• Popular Vote
• Electoral College

Between the two parties our data shows an incredible partisan divide.

• Democrats overwhelmingly support a change to the system, preferring to pick the President through a popular vote at 90%.
• 78% of Republicans favor keeping the current Electoral College system.
• Independent voters slightly favor a popular vote system at 59%.

The older you are, the more likely you are to support an Electoral College system. Baby Boomers support the current system at 72%, while 47% of Generation X wants to keep the current system. Meanwhile, 62% of Millennials favor using the popular vote to decide future elections.

Hispanic and Black voters strongly support a popular vote system (82%,87%). Asians slightly support switching to a popular vote, while 57% of Whites favor the electoral college.

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This data was taken from a poll of 617 mobile online users across America. You may use this data and content freely if you cite the “Aop App” as your source in any written or audio publication. If you would like access to more data like this please contact our team: info@aopapp.com