Poll: Dump Electoral College?

A group pushing to shake up how America elects the president has added a lobbyist in Idaho to push legislation to dump the existing system for a de facto national popular election. That’s where states give all their Electoral College votes to the national winner, not the candidate who wins the state, as generally happens now.Washington and other states have already adopted a compact. Reform proponents criticize the Electoral College as antiquated and antidemocratic, in part because four presidents, most recently George W. Bush in 2000, have won the presidency without securing a national majority/ AP . More here .

• Hump Day Poll: By 33 to 30 (or 52% of 63), respondents said they’d like to see today’s college students more involved in 1960s-70s political activism.