Show i I CORN BEL BELT T Rural lural Vote Counts Leaders of both major parties have lave spent considerable time Ume since the he election trying to read the future future future fu fu- ture from the election results One obvious conclusion was drawn The major battle ground for tor the 19 1952 2 election will be in the midwest corn belt As most voters remember Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man won the 1948 1048 election because three Midwest states jumped from their heir traditional GOP column to the he Democrat side They were Ohio Illinois and Iowa Had any two of ot these states voted for tor Dewey in 1948 he would have been elected In the recent election however the rural vote returned to the Republican Republican Re Re- Republican publican ledger Two factors may have In Influenced the switch in the farm tarm arm voting a tendency for tor farmers to return to their traditional Republicanism when times are good and to vote Democratic only when their prices and Incomes are de declining g and apparent dissatisfaction with foreign policies of ot the tion lion For these reasons the tho farmers of the Midwest will fine fina them themselves elves the target of 01 both Republican and Democratic candidates in ID 1932 1052 Tho The Republicans Republican will attempt to increase their theu gains lains and the D Democrats can be b. expected to launch a attack to retake command It might even be bo said dd that the farmers of the midwest will elect the nex next president of the United States State J |