| Show I 1 CLOSING DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN As the campaign enters its closing days it is becoming the liveliest and most aggressive in many a year not since the war have the principal figures in a presidential race refe refereed ried so directly or cuttingly to each other recent landon speeches offer the new deal no quarter and recent roosevelt sTee speeches ches have pulled no punches this aggressiveness on the part of the candidates is serving to clear th the e air and bring the issues iv ito to relief it is dissipating some ot ol the tremendous va hageness geness vagen that characterizes both platforms with their cautiously worded escape clauses but there is considerable question as to whether the candidates closing drives can enlist new followers in any number polls show relatively little change in recent w weeks all polls indicate that the vote is extremely close in most of the big states and that the winner will I 1 emerge victorious by a very small percentage of the ballots so far as popular vote is concer concerned ried electoral vote is another matter a candidate who receives a little over 50 per cent of the popular vote could attain a large majority in the electoral college |
