Show jr III i economic economic co highlights t for many years i there liaa has been to chaffi c ia igo e through constitute constitutional bonat amen amendment ament our method at 0 electing presidents by abolishing the electoral college oystein 1 As it Is now iad and re P l acing it with it system based on oil the popular vote it now look lo oha soai it this proposal lias has an cx xcell cellon ent t hange change of becoming law if it foes does it will revolutionize the established pattern ot of political campaigning under tinder the ousting the candidate andi date who gains agns a majority in a san otate to gets the voto vote ot of the strite 1 1 in n 06 electoral college it inako any low liow large that majority may bo be lie ile might carry a by but a popular voto yot he would got tho the whole electoral vote iud that la 18 th the voto that counts the constitutional amendment which Is now bonding provides that each candIdA andl dato tois electoral vote shall bo be to lils 1114 popular yo lofela fela other oilier words it it a pian man received rece ivol 51 per cent of 0 I 1 a popular vote lleW lio would got that hat pore per centaRo en ingo ot at tho the electoral doctoral totoa totes instead or nf all of it and if on the oilier handslip hand ho got 49 por par lie ho would bo be glyen given that part of bf tho ait voto instead Iti alfrad of i i I 1 nono none I 1 the influence this woud have oil on I 1 politics poetics la ob obvious v IOUs por for Ins a tile tho auyer abend ili ach I 1 lioney Vion cly or exert witch much offord in tile the south they know vint their chance 0 of gaining 4 n majority i lit in any ady ot of those la Is hilt but one short atop removed front impossible however upeor the proposed now system it would bollo behoove ovo the to do its ita utmost in say tennessee Tonno no its than in ohio akry van mii vote even the total wah ddll modest would help their candidate tow irrl the ahll house I 1 dy tho the same hamo token i would iq longer just go through Y the motions of in III solidly itasca such as Verinon tt ali wd 0 o oui to got get tho iho lawit large 91 proportion prop 0 of tile tho vote possible flo Prest fent truman luia has said lie doubt doublas ir if tho the proposed propos oil can io effo effected tod in III time to influence fluence tho the duit as aa jay points doutri ono one or of lila his columns all amendments recently bidye run tile tho gantlet of 0 state ratification lit loss losa time than dould bo be available aval lilIo to complete on enactment of tho the present prop proposal osal before 1952 tile the amendment n became law about abou t ten tell months atter after it was submit toa to tile tho states tho the am tile the lacci d gf salon of made the grade in 11 in outha the legalizing comans womans suffrage was approved in ili 14 mouths fit anyO any event VOIt it IMI 1808 to caaso batise important and far reaching clanger clang eg in ili the partisan political setup till it now exists ex lata |