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[SheltieLover]

1. Sure is broken!

[lunatica]

2. That's not going to last much longer.

People are excited now. They want this change and even the Qers and MAGATs want a fair wage. The Republicans are proving they’re idiot tone deaf slime buckets yet once again.

[Nitram]

3. It will be passed. Just not part of the Covid relief package.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Twitter reply:

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[aggiesal]

6. The Democrats in the Senate represent the overwhelming majority of the American people. ...

Want to know by how much?
48 (D) & 2 (I) Senators received 20M more votes than the 50 (R) Senators.

Here is the break down with more specific numbers.

There are 50 (R) Senators. Adding up their total votes is 63,745,827 votes
There are 48 (D) Senators. Adding up their total votes is 83,224,682 votes
48 (D) received 19,478,855 more votes than 50 (R).
(D) 56.63% (+13.25%)
(R) 43.37%

If we include the 2 (I) that caucus with the (D),
48 (D) & 2 (I) received 20,007,079 more votes than 50 (R).
(D) 56.78% (+13.56%)
(R) 42.22%

Still 20,000,000 is a ton of votes.

Also, I noticed that some counties in the U.S. have more voters then both North Dakota & Alaska Senators
ND. Hoeven 268,788 votes in 2016 election
ND. Cramer 170,720 votes in 2018 election

AK. Murkowski 138,149 votes in 2016
AK. Sullivan 191,112 votes in 2020

LA County alone has more voters than 41 of 50 (R) individual Senators votes.
Feinstein received 1,565,167 votes in 2018 from LA County alone.
She would have won against 41 Senators in a Head-to-Head election just from LA County votes.

That shows how much just LA County in under-represented in the Senate.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Wow! Impressive stats! Great job!

[aggiesal]

8. Yea, I had to go back to elections data from

2016, 2018 & 2020

It was pretty disgusting to see that (D)'s hold a 19M votes advantage with
less senators (48 D's & 50 R's)

The (D) Senators should use this to their advantage.
Screw the 50/50 split, they should use these numbers
48 (D) & 2 (I) received 20,007,079 more votes than 50 (R).
(D) 56.78% (+13.56%)
(R) 42.22%

This shows how 42.22% of voters in this country can control one part of Congress.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. Yes, you're right - and it's also reflected in the Electoral College

Which is how we ended up with the candidate who got 3 million fewer votes.

[PatrickforO]

11. This is why we need to add Puerto Rico and DC as states.

Because they will also each boast two senators, and they both lean heavily Democratic.

[aggiesal]

12. I don't agree that DC should be a state, ...

but I do agree that DC needs representation in both the house & senate.

DC should remain federal land.

[PatrickforO]

14. Hmm. Interesting. I had an argument about this with a colleague the other day.

He brought up taxation, and the whole funding of a state government thing. But if we could leave it federal land, but give it representation in the House and Senate, then we're good.

[smirkymonkey]

16. Thank YOU, Rhiannon!

[Rhiannon12866]

17. That really is an excellent point and the biggest reason we're in the fix we're in today.

[TeamProg]

5. And let's not forget that Blue districts produce 71% of our GDP

While uneducated Repuli-Qanon voting districts only generate 29% of our county's wealth.

Disgusted yet?

[PatrickforO]

10. Reich is my favorite economist.

He was a heck of a good Secretary of Labor too.

[nam78_two]

15. Bump.nt

[Irish_Dem]

18. Half the Senate represents themselves and corporate donors.

Not the people.