--- title: Hillary Clinton: It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College description: Hillary Clinton endorsed getting rid of the Electoral College. canonical: https://time.com/4942063/hillary-clinton-electoral-college/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-14T17:55:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:45:09.976Z article:section: Politics og:title: Hillary Clinton: It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College og:description: "We've moved toward one-person, one-vote." og:url: https://time.com/4942063/hillary-clinton-electoral-college/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b8456ee44e9cd91/6988ddc00a4a2215189cfe4b/2017-09-12t164519z_1955213765_rc1df3436250_rtrmadp_3_usa-clinton-book-signing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3500 og:image:height: 1969 og:image:alt: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs a copy of her new book 'What happened' at Barnes & Noble bookstore at Union Square in Manhattan, New York og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton: It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College twitter:description: "We've moved toward one-person, one-vote." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b8456ee44e9cd91/6988ddc00a4a2215189cfe4b/2017-09-12t164519z_1955213765_rc1df3436250_rtrmadp_3_usa-clinton-book-signing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton: It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College > Sponsored content. 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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs a copy of her new book 'What happened' at Barnes & Noble bookstore in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., September 12, 2017. Andrew Kelly—Reuters by [Ryan Teague Beckwith](https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/) ## Ryan Teague Beckwith Sep 14, 2017 5:55 PM UTC Hillary Clinton endorsed getting rid of the Electoral College. In [an interview with CNN](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/13/politics/hillary-clinton-anderson-cooper-electoral-college-cnntv/index.html) Thursday, the former Secretary of State said that it’s time for the country to move toward electing the president by popular vote, which she won by [nearly 3 million votes](http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/donald-trump-hillary-clinton-popular-vote-final-count/index.html) in November. “We’ve moved toward one-person, one-vote, that’s how we select winners,” she said, adding that the Electoral College should be ended. “I think it needs to be eliminated. I’d like to see us move beyond it, yes.” Clinton’s loss was the second time in 16 years that a candidate has lost the Electoral College while winning the most votes and the fifth since 1824. Clinton also called for ending the Electoral College as a senator-elect in 2000 after Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore’s loss. “I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president,” [she said at the time](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-calls-for-end-to-electoral-college/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4942063/hillary-clinton-electoral-college/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4942063/hillary-clinton-electoral-college/"},"headline":"Hillary Clinton: It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College","datePublished":"2017-09-14T17:55:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-19T07:45:09.976Z","description":"\"We've moved toward one-person, one-vote\"","url":"https://time.com/4942063/hillary-clinton-electoral-college/","keywords":["hillary clinton","2016 Election","Donald Trump","Al Gore","Constitution","electoral college"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b8456ee44e9cd91/6988ddc00a4a2215189cfe4b/2017-09-12t164519z_1955213765_rc1df3436250_rtrmadp_3_usa-clinton-book-signing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ryan Teague Beckwith","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ryan-teague-beckwith/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b8456ee44e9cd91/6988ddc00a4a2215189cfe4b/2017-09-12t164519z_1955213765_rc1df3436250_rtrmadp_3_usa-clinton-book-signing.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs a copy of her new book 'What happened' at Barnes & Noble bookstore at Union Square in Manhattan, New York","caption":"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs a copy of her new book 'What happened' at Barnes & Noble bookstore at Union Square in Manhattan, New York","creditText":"Andrew Kelly—Reuters","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/hillary-clinton-2/","name":"hillary clinton"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4942063/hillary-clinton-electoral-college/","name":"Hillary Clinton: It's Time to Abolish the Electoral College"}}]}] ```