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48 If Senator Thruston B. Morton is right in what he told a Portland State aud i– ence, then what our democratic proc– ess needs is a heavy student infiltra– tion of the polls . Speaking informally to a student– faculty gathering , the senator from Kentucky said , " The average student is much better equipped to make a choice than the average voter." And added his conviction that the current crop of college students is much more interested in politics than in his own college days . Senator Morton whose name was publicized in early lists of Republican presidential possibilities, was in Portland on a fund-raising swing around the country.