Chuck Darwin on Nostr: It’s been 34 years since Senate Republicans represented a majority of the U.S. ...
It’s been 34 years since Senate Republicans represented a majority of the U.S. population.
-- Nevertheless, in seven of the 13 Congresses since then, Republicans were the Senate majority party.
How can that be?
The elephant in the room: a senator from California represents more than 39 million residents; from Wyoming, less than 577,000. But both states have the same number of votes in the U.S. Senate.
“At the time of the founding, the biggest state was 13 times the size of the smallest state. Today…a few hundred thousand people in Wyoming have as much power as tens of millions of people in California or New York.”
The situation is worse than that Wyoming example.
California has a greater population than the smallest 21 (of 50) states combined. No “one person, one vote” relationship is happening if you live in California.
One consequence of the Constitutional compromise that gave each state two senators:
- twice in this century the person who won the popular vote did not set foot in the White House.
Our electoral college vote is rigged to favor minority rule because of the Senate’s non-proportional structure.
Every state gets two senators.
(Give the founding leaders a little break; there were no political parties in 1787.)
Al Gore conceded to George Bush in 2000 after the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount. Gore received 50,992,235 votes to Bush’s 50,455,456.
Hillary Clinton conceded to Donald Trump in 2016, despite receiving about 2.9 million more votes than Trump.
You have to reach way back to 1876 and 1888 to see that same unequal treatment, a minority-vote president.
https://themoderatevoice.com/tyranny-of-the-minority-four-of-the-six-gop-nominated-justices-were-confirmed-by-senators-representing-less-than-half-of-the-u-s-population/
-- Nevertheless, in seven of the 13 Congresses since then, Republicans were the Senate majority party.
How can that be?
The elephant in the room: a senator from California represents more than 39 million residents; from Wyoming, less than 577,000. But both states have the same number of votes in the U.S. Senate.
“At the time of the founding, the biggest state was 13 times the size of the smallest state. Today…a few hundred thousand people in Wyoming have as much power as tens of millions of people in California or New York.”
The situation is worse than that Wyoming example.
California has a greater population than the smallest 21 (of 50) states combined. No “one person, one vote” relationship is happening if you live in California.
One consequence of the Constitutional compromise that gave each state two senators:
- twice in this century the person who won the popular vote did not set foot in the White House.
Our electoral college vote is rigged to favor minority rule because of the Senate’s non-proportional structure.
Every state gets two senators.
(Give the founding leaders a little break; there were no political parties in 1787.)
Al Gore conceded to George Bush in 2000 after the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount. Gore received 50,992,235 votes to Bush’s 50,455,456.
Hillary Clinton conceded to Donald Trump in 2016, despite receiving about 2.9 million more votes than Trump.
You have to reach way back to 1876 and 1888 to see that same unequal treatment, a minority-vote president.
https://themoderatevoice.com/tyranny-of-the-minority-four-of-the-six-gop-nominated-justices-were-confirmed-by-senators-representing-less-than-half-of-the-u-s-population/