text: I'm not the only one who thinks this way. "...according to a Gallup poll in 2000...over 60 percent of voters would prefer a direct election to the kind we have now." Their has been several cases in which the candidate has "won the popular vote but lost the presidency" (Plumer). For instance, the election in 2000 with Al Gore, where his opponent, George W. Bush, received 271 electoral votes and he received 266, eventhough Gore won the popular vote. Instead of voting for a group of people who vote for us, what's the harm in letting the people choose our nation's leader?