Let’s see if I can help you here. The original founders of the Pew Research Center were conservative and Republican leaning Pew family members. Howard Pew and Joseph N Pew Jr were the two sons of the Joseph Pew Senior. They were both major proponents of free enterprise. Pew Jr was a corporate lobbyist who even helped to overturn FDRs National Recovery Act. When the two brothers died, the center and trust took a major turn. Rebecca Rimel was appointed executive director and later president in the 80s and 90s. Under her leadership, the Pew Research Center, funded by the Pew Charitable Trust, began shifting its focus to progressive and environmental causes. This includes restricting drilling for oil. This went contrary to Howard Pew’s vision of the trust being used “to acquaint the American People” with “the evils of bureaucracy”, “the values of the free market”, “the paralyzing effects of government controls on the lives and activities of people” and “to inform our people of the struggle, persecution, hardship, sacrifice and death by which freedom of the individual was won”.
According to analysis of Pew spending, done by Robert Learner and Althea Nagai in 1995 for the Capital Research Center, showed in 1981 Pew Trusts gave 2.4 million dollars to conservative causes and in 1993 all grants to conservative groups were eliminated but one for $150,000. By 1986 liberal groups were receiving 3 times the money as conservatives and by 1994 liberal groups were getting 40 times more money than conservatives. Stephen Salisbury in a two part investigation for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1996 found that Pew Charitable Trusts “were no longer an insular conservative family affair designed to dole out money. The foundation is a full-blow bureaucracy working to influence organizations and events, both inside government and out”.
Everything the Pew charitable trust and Pew Research Center started as had been transformed to the opposite of what its conservative roots stood for. This is a very short synopsis of how The Pew Research Center was overtaken and turned into an NGO that people still believed to be conservative to act as a propaganda machine. Now that we know the people people in charge of the money are progressives who are pushing progressive policies it is easy to see how they would want people to believe most Americans no longer want the electoral college. No electoral college means the states with the highest populations would basically be in charge of American and the states with low populations would be forced to comply. All the liberals and progressives in California and New York would love to have more power to tell the rest of us what to do in the flyover states. This however goes directly against what the founding fathers envisioned which is why we have a Senate and House of Representatives to go along with the electoral college. I don’t think I need to give basic lessons on the constitution and that can all be researched by you if you care to do so. Long story short, The Pew Research Center that does the polling is being used to manipulate people into thinking Americans would like to get rid of the electoral college. The gears of the machine are quite obvious with just a little research. Nice try attempting to act as if you were giving me a conservative groups opinion on the electoral college. The Pew is not conservative and hasn’t been for a long time. Follow the money….
