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Discrimination and intolerance soon had a spokesman. Bellowed Texas' Ed Gossett: "The bill rewards the least deserving, the least desirable and the most dangerous of all people who would like to come to this country. . . The cream has been skimmed off those camps time & time & time again," until only "the dregs were left...
Furthermore, D.P.s were all foreigners, and most likely spies and saboteurs to boot. "There is no question in the world but what many of those now in the D.P. camps were planted there deliberately to infiltrate this country," Gossett declaimed. "They came here with the connivance and assistance...of the Red governments from whom they have allegedly fled. All of this business about these poor people not being able to go home because they would be liquidated is pure unadulterated bosh...
...Franklin Roosevelt received 432 electoral votes and Thomas E. Dewey 99. Under the Lodge-Gossett system, Roosevelt would have gotten 300,726, Dewey...
Under the Lodge-Gossett system, the electoral vote for 1948 would have been divided thus: Truman, 258.098; Dewey, 221.464; Thurmond, 38.769; and Wallace (who received no electoral vote under the present system), 9.987.† To most citizens, it seemed that some such accurate reflection of the popular vote was long overdue...
Since the election of Presidents is the privilege of the states, it seemed unlikely that the system of electoral votes would ever be abolished. But a constitutional amendment proposed by Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Texas' Congressman Ed Gossett would eliminate block voting. Under its terms, electoral votes of each state would be divided in proportion to the popular vote, and a mere plurality in the electoral college would be sufficient for election...