Word: voting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rest of his life to complete. He has put forth a constitutional amendment altering the time-honored way in which America chooses a President. Under the Senator's plan, electoral units would take the place of presidential electors. Each state would keep its present total of electoral votes--but with a difference. Instead of the leading candidate garnering all the electoral votes of one state, Senator Lodge would divide electoral units among the contenders in proportion to the popular vote. And to make sure that his plan would not result in elections going to the House of Representatives, Lodge...
...Lodge Plan would correct the two major evils of the present system. Large states now have exaggerated importance in an election, since in these states a difference of a few thousand votes can shift huge stacks of electoral votes from one column to the other. Twice since the Civil War this has meant that the man with a majority of popular votes has lost the election. Tilden beat Hayes by over 200,000 votes in 1876; yet he lost. Cleveland beat Harrison by over 100,000 votes in 1888; yet he lost. And in the 1948 election a few more...
...plugging and popularizing before the Plan is passed. Determined opposition has already appeared from two sides. Many persons, including influential Congressmen, think Lodge doesn't go far enough. They urge a direct popular election, claiming that under both the present system and the Lodge Plan, the states' electoral votes are not proportional to population. (Nevada, for instance, has one-sixteenth the electoral vote of New York, but only one one-hundred-and-thirtieth of the population of New York. This is because under the Constitution every state has a base electoral vote of three.) But this idea is politically...
Even though California had finished the season undefeated, it still wasn't in the Rose Bowl yet, for Oregon too was unbeaten in Pacific Coast Conference games. That left the Rose Bowl choice to the vote of all ten Pacific Coast Conference schools. This week they picked California. Its opponent: Northwestern, which is second best in the Big Nine. Under the strange terms of the Rose Bowl contract, Big Nine Champion Michigan, which played in the last Rose Bowl (and beat Southern California, 49-0), is ineligible to return for two more years...
Basing his theories on election returns of the last 100 years, Bean concluded in his book that 1946 produced the lowest vote for the Democratic Party, and that 1948 is actually the beginning of a new ebb tide for the GOP and the start of another Democratic...