this strikes me as more urgently and critically a "problem for democracy" than "a problem for Democrats"
Dave Wasserman @Redistrict
20 Aug 2018
A long-term problem for Democrats: a majority of the Senate now represents 18% of the country’s population.
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The actual numbers today (using 2017 census population numbers) are that the 49 Democrats & Independents in the Senate represent 363,971,955 people and the 51 Republicans represent 286,078,457 people. (This adds to 2x population of US minus DC, since 2 senators per person.)
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Replying to @davidbaron @sethdmichaels
Or putting it another way, today's actual majority represents 44% of the population, and today's actual minority represents 56% of the population.

Aug 20, 2018 · 10:24 PM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @sethdmichaels
And that's if Senators actually represent the interests of their entire constituencies, rather than just the slim majorities that elect them (or the even smaller groups that sponsor them)
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