--- title: Electoral College Poll Shows Donald Trump Support description: Poll shows partisan split among voters about Electoral College canonical: https://time.com/4606230/electoral-college-donald-trump-poll/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-19T13:33:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:48:15.882Z article:section: Politics og:title: Americans Aren’t Hungry for an Electoral College Revolt Against Trump og:description: But there's a clear partisan split on the issue og:url: https://time.com/4606230/electoral-college-donald-trump-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt954aa1e59050da1e/6988b369428a9e8d71cd54f1/donald-trump32.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Donald Trump Continues His Election Victory Tour In Hershey, Pennsylvania og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Americans Aren’t Hungry for an Electoral College Revolt Against Trump twitter:description: But there's a clear partisan split on the issue twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt954aa1e59050da1e/6988b369428a9e8d71cd54f1/donald-trump32.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Americans Aren’t Hungry for an Electoral College Revolt Against Donald Trump by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 19, 2016 1:33 PM UTC  HERSHEY, PA - DECEMBER 15: President-elect Donald J. Trump holds a "Thank You Tour 2016" rally at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 15, 2016. HERSHEY, PA - DECEMBER 15: President-elect Donald J. Trump holds a "Thank You Tour 2016" rally at Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania, on Dec. 15, 2016.Mark Makela—Getty Images by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 19, 2016 1:33 PM UTC Most Americans do not want [the Electoral College](http://time.com/4597227/electoral-college-donald-trump/) to overturn the results of the presidential election when [electors meet across the country on Monday](http://time.com/4606035/donald-trump-electoral-college-meets-presidency/?xid=homepage), according to [a new poll](http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/electoral-college-trump-revolt-232799). The _Politico_/Morning Consult survey found that 46% of voters think the electors should vote for the candidate their state picked in the general election, while a little over a third of voters think they should be able to vote for someone else. There has been much discussion of an Electoral College rebellion in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. [President-elect Donald Trump’s](http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2016-donald-trump/?xid=homepage) popular vote deficit of almost three million has revived calls for reforming or eliminating the group. But the electoral outrage is largely split along party lines. While a majority Democrats and Hillary Clinton supporters want electors to have freedom to vote how they feel, most Republicans and Trump supporters want them to vote as the states did. There’s also a significant partisan split among those who want the Constitution amended eliminate the Electoral College and those who want things to stay as they are. The poll of 2,000 registered voters, conducted between Dec. 15 and Dec. 17, has a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4606230/electoral-college-donald-trump-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4606230/electoral-college-donald-trump-poll/"},"headline":"Americans Aren’t Hungry for an Electoral College Revolt Against Donald Trump","datePublished":"2016-12-19T13:33:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:48:15.882Z","description":"But there's a clear partisan split on the issue","url":"https://time.com/4606230/electoral-college-donald-trump-poll/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election","Election 2016","2016 presidential election","electoral college","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt954aa1e59050da1e/6988b369428a9e8d71cd54f1/donald-trump32.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt954aa1e59050da1e/6988b369428a9e8d71cd54f1/donald-trump32.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Donald Trump Continues His Election Victory Tour In Hershey, Pennsylvania","caption":"Donald Trump Continues His Election Victory Tour In Hershey, Pennsylvania","creditText":"Mark Makela—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4606230/electoral-college-donald-trump-poll/","name":"Americans Aren’t Hungry for an Electoral College Revolt Against Donald Trump"}}]}] ```