The nation . ghts Partyheaded by J. Strom Thurmond ( iSenator from South Carolina), re-ceived V) mans 303 and D 189. 1 Dewey carried Illinois, Californiaand Ohio (Truma iked through in all chr< would have been on the electoral count. Had he i o of the three, ho would deprived Tru- man of an elector.) and the election would ha\the Hou of the Si Rigl ) begin with. What wouldtional i if Dewey had in this manner or th<been left up to the House? Thisof subornation of the peo]could he (I iu and th of an electors candidate failing by a itial margin to have a popular-vote ma-jority will remain w
The nation . ghts Partyheaded by J. Strom Thurmond ( iSenator from South Carolina), re-ceived V) mans 303 and D 189. 1 Dewey carried Illinois, Californiaand Ohio (Truma iked through in all chr< would have been on the electoral count. Had he i o of the three, ho would deprived Tru- man of an elector.) and the election would ha\the Hou of the Si Rigl ) begin with. What wouldtional i if Dewey had in this manner or th<been left up to the House? Thisof subornation of the peo]could he (I iu and th of an electors candidate failing by a itial margin to have a popular-vote ma-jority will remain with us until theConstitution is amended. SINCE 1948, membehave been the da of the electoral em, and forts have amendment which would reform theelectoral-co that it would reflect the popular v<proposal, first pushed by SenatorKarl Mundt (R . ) and again be-ing offered with variati ouldamend rution so that eachstate would eleci I tors-at-large, the otl onals or th lent. Then,instead ol thewmher-tal(where. by popularis I disc i Louti 1Question Bffore the He •uld the Mundt proposal guar-antee a popular-majority President?The . arning that it would not cam. veek from the American iovernment Society of Wash-»n, , whose statisticians an-nounced that had the system been960 election, Vicelident Nixon would have won282 electoral votes—thirteenmore than required. other proposal, first pushed byry Cabot Lodge in the Senateii^o, still has Congressionalindeed, in the unlikelyit that the next Congress doesact on the issue, it would probablyilong the lines suggested by Under this plan, the Consti-tution would be amended to providethat each states electoral voteshould l»e split in proportion to thestates popular vote. first glance, this seems an ad-mirable way to end all the presenti appeared to the Senatein 1950, when it approved a resolu-to submit such an amendmenttie states by 64 to 27—three morethan the necessary two-thirds. The opposition in the Senate was led
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