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NEW!7,094sharesCLEVELAND - Large majorities of voters in the swing states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin believe presidential elections should be decided by the national popular vote instead of through the Electoral College system, according to a newly released poll from Baldwin-Wallace University.But there’s a marked partisan divide on the issue.In every one of the states examined by the BW Great Lakes Poll, at least 70% of Democratic respondents said they’d prefer using the popular vote to select presidents rather than Electoral College system, which gives every state a number of electoral votes equal to its representation in Congress.The idea was less popular among Republicans, whose last two presidents, Donald Trump and George W. Bush, ended up in the White House after winning in the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. Around half of the Republican respondents in each state said they favored retaining the Electoral College, with roughly a third of Republicans preferring use of the popular vote. The rest said they were “unsure.”Ohio’s Republicans supported the Electoral College system more than than their counterparts in other states, with 56.3% backing. Around 27% of Ohio Republicans supported using the popular vote to decide the presidency. Seventy-six percent of the Ohio Democrats surveyed said they favored the popular vote, while around 10% backed using the Electoral College.The idea of using the popular vote to decide the presidency instead of the Electoral College was more popular among women than men in every state.Results of the latest poll on use of the electoral college didn’t differ much from the last BW poll, which .Baldwin Wallace University’s Community Research Institute partnered with and Michigan’s University, to query more than 1,000 self-identified likely voters in Ohio, MIchigan and Pennsylvania, and more than 800 in Wisconsin using Qualtrics, an online sample aggregator. The states were picked because all went for President Barack Obama in 2012 and President Trump in 2016 -- three of four by slim margins. The poll’s overall error margins in each state were: plus or minus 3.6% for Michigan and Pennsylvania, 3.3% for Ohio, and 3.7% for Wisconsin.Baldwin Wallace University political scientist said the pollsters asked the Electoral College question again to determine whether results would change closer to the general election. He predicts the Electoral College will likely be a subject of “scrutiny and concern” during this year’s election, especially if final vote tallies are delayed in some states, as occurred in Florida during the 2000 election.“There is also a lot of scrutiny of the Electoral College, where sparsely populated states like Wyoming might have each of their Electoral College votes represent 200,000 people, where each electoral vote in a state like New York represents at least double that amount of people," Sutton says. this week will publish a series of stories digging deeper into the findings of this poll. Find those stories, as well as stories from previous BW polls, at .Note to readers: if you purchase something through one of our affiliate links we may earn a commission.

NEW!7,094sharesCLEVELAND - Large majorities of voters in the swing states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin believe presidential elections should be decided by the national popular vote instead of through the Electoral College system, according to a newly released poll from Baldwin-Wallace University.But there’s a marked partisan divide on the issue.In every one of the states examined by the BW Great Lakes Poll, at least 70% of Democratic respondents said they’d prefer using the popular vote to select presidents rather than Electoral College system, which gives every state a...

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