Show II Will Win the tho Year 20 Formula Hold True This Year J President Truman Is n high spirits as he looks ahead to the c campaign says U U. S. S News land tand World Report He expects a 4 Democrat to live In the White House for tor the next four tour years after January 19 3 despite the Republican nomination of Dwight D. D Eisenhower Mr Truman Is putting his faith In An n cJ election for formula multi mula that has ha brought victory to the Democrats regularly for 20 years This will come as something of a shock to those optimists who wh I li that G General rs r's personal appeal and pre pres prestige tige plus widespread criticism of the administration on grounds ranging from Crom corruption In high 1 places to the tho th handling of the I Korean orean War make the GOP a cinch after atter 20 long hungry years Yet Ye Mr Truman Is no wishful thinker and his confidence Is based upon hard political precedents and realities U. U S. S News br breaks aks the presidents president's strategy down In this wise First of all he plans on holding hoMing 69 electoral seats se ts In the south while regarding It ras as possible that the Republicans may pick up the other 59 I Then the formula provides for concentrating hard on the big city v vote te where labor a and and- d' d minority groups have hav a major voice I In a number of the states which are arc most Important from t the standpoint of eI electoral votes one or two big cities usually decide the t e Issue Examples are New York City In New York Los Angeles t of and ci San Fransisco In California Boston In i Massachusetts Chicago In Illinois I 1 1 As U. As-U. U. U S. S Nt News ws o observes erves the Democrats have been doing ex ex- I i well In do the thel titles dUes There are cities with a In n excess of In 1932 and again Is 1948 1913 the Democrats Demo I earned carried all an but 15 of them In 1936 there ther was really a debacle the the Republicans carried only two two They got nine In 1910 and 10 In I w According t tb tS U S. S News Mr Truman bell believes eves that his formula for mula muIa will give the Democrats electoral votes In the north With the die anticipated sure thing sure thing southern votes the he t total taI becomes be comes two two more than Is needed to win Like all aU formulas and this one could ouId prove to be beto to al bust The events of 1932 or 1940 or an any other year will not ne necessarily be e repeated But the foregoing shows why the Democrats are entitled i to o some m measure measure asure of optimism To quote U U. S. S News again The Democrats have money jobs a strong or or- and a foothold In the White louse House Mr mtr Truman is confident he has bras a winning formula that will keep them there d This also shows what General Eisenhower and the GOP organization or are up against Their hope Is to get most of th the farm vote and tb to crack the south to some extent Then as as they well km know V they must make a big dent In the vote vot that has been going to the Democrats Democrat with clockwork regularity Els strategists show a n confidence they can do this This time they think they've got the candidate and the issues f Nobody who Is well versed In to politics expects a 11 walkover for for either party As the pending campaign can cam be envisaged now it willbe he be exceedingly hard the decision may be an n extremely ex ex- ti j close one hinging on on what happens In two or i three r e states Both organizations are girding gIrdIng for for or out all no holds barred holds barred J Ii j tl bt battIe Xi e. e r j ir t if l b t a JUli taw W |