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Gallup found 75% in favor of
term limits and 63% for abolishing the Electoral College.
Last month, Gallup found 79%
supporting overall limits on
campaign spending and 50%
backing a publicly financed
campaign system.
A large majority of respondents
favor changing the total length of
the presidential election to “just
five weeks in late September and
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October before the November election.” A smaller, but still sizable,
majority would like to scrap the primary process altogether, and have
“a nationwide primary on one day
instead of ... individual state primaries run over several months.”
Of course, there is an obvious
grand irony here. The largest majority of respondents would like to
“require a nationwide popular vote
on any issue if enough voters signed
a petition to request a vote on the
issue.” And that is something that
I would caution against. It sounds
very similar to the direct democ-
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President
Barack
Obama
speaks during
a campaign
event in
Madison,
Wis., in 2012.