Editing United States Electoral College (section)

=== Polling ~40% ===
21st century polling data shows that a majority of Americans consistently favor having a direct popular vote for presidential elections. The popularity of the Electoral College has hovered between 35% and 44%.<ref name=Pew2024/><ref name="PewResearch">{{cite web |last=Daniller |first=Andrew |date=March 13, 2020 |title=A majority of Americans continue to favor replacing Electoral College with a nationwide popular vote |url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/03/13/a-majority-of-americans-continue-to-favor-replacing-electoral-college-with-a-nationwide-popular-vote/ |access-date=November 10, 2019 |series=Fact Tank: news in the numbers |publisher=Pew Research Center}}</ref>{{efn|Americans favored a Constitutional Amendment to elect the president by a nationwide popular vote on average 61% and those for electoral college selection 35%. In 2016 polling, the gap closed to 51% direct election versus 44% electoral college. By 2020, American thinking had again diverged with 58% for direct election versus 40% for the electoral college choosing a president.<ref name=PewResearch />}}