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Direct election does have wide bipartisan support elsewhere, along with the backing of labor and business groups and the American Bar Association. "I think the experience last fall awakened people to the point that they may even be ahead of their Potomac advisers," said Ohio's William McCulloch, senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. Perhaps, but it is the men on the Potomac and in the state capitols who will have the decisive word. The construction of last week's resolution—even if it should somehow clear Congress swiftly—makes it almost impossible to effect reform by 1972. The prospect, then, is for at least one more presidential election under the old, imperfect system.