Back in the olden days, when Trump had been impeached only once and the disposition of Georgia's senate seats had not been settled, I noted that, putting the Peach State temporarily aside, there were 22 states with two Republican senators, 21 states with two Democratic senators, and six others with one senator from each party. I noted, too, that the population of the 21 states with two Democratic senators was about 157 million, compared to 126 million in the 22 states with two Republican senators. So 44 Republican senators representing 126 million people and 42 Democratic senators representing 157 million people.
We can now include Georgia, with its population of just over 10 million, in our calculations. It joins the states with two Democratic senators, and there are now 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans in the Senate. The Democrats, however, represent 41 million more Americans. The difference in the number of people represented by the same number of senators is equal to about one-eighth of the country's population, which would be 12.5%. In terms of citizens, it's 56-44 for the Dems, but in terms of representation in the Senate it's 50-50. Such facts and figures may account for why Republicans appear less interested in converting Aunt Betty than in appeasing manifest lunatics. Our arrangements do not punish them for having failed to appeal to a majority, with the predictable result that they no longer even try. They're doing just fine. Hell, Trump was outvoted, twice, but has appointed a third of the Supreme Court justices and a quarter of the entire federal judiciary.
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