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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Thu Feb 25, 2021, 10:37 PM Feb 2021

GOP Senators Haven't Represented a Majority Since 1996

GOP Senators Haven’t Represented a Majority Since 1996

February 25, 2021 at 9:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 55 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/25/gop-senators-havent-represented-a-majority-since-1996/

"SNIP.....

Ed Gilgore: “Republican senators haven’t represented a majority of the U.S. population since 1996 and haven’t together won a majority of Senate votes since 1998. Yet the GOP controlled the Senate from 1995 through 2007 (with a brief interregnum in 2001–02 after a party switch by Jim Jeffords) and again from 2015 until 2021.”

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GOP Senators Haven't Represented a Majority Since 1996 (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2021 OP
If everybody had voted, even Reagan would have lost. rickyhall Feb 2021 #1
I posted this elsewhere too: applegrove Feb 2021 #2

rickyhall

(4,889 posts)
1. If everybody had voted, even Reagan would have lost.
Thu Feb 25, 2021, 10:48 PM
Feb 2021

Like Trump intimated, If it was easy to vote the repugs wouldn't stand a chance.

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