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Who-----------------State--------------Population Max Baucus----------Montana------------967,440 Kent Conrad---------North Dakota--------641,481 Jeff Bingaman--------New Mexico----------1,984,356 Chuck Grassley-------Iowa----------------3,002,555 Mike Enzi------------Wyoming-------------532,668 Olympia Snowe-------Maine--------------1,316,456
Those Senators represent 8,444,956 people out of a total of 304,059,724 for the nation. That's 2.7%. And they're all rural.
If each Senator represented a hypothetical state that contained 1/50th of the U.S. population (6,081,194.48) then collectively, the six would represent 12% of the nation.
That's not particularly inspiring (a larger "Gang" would be better), but it's a whole lot better than 2.7%. The Senate might just as well be a House of Lords, full of individuals with whatever quirks they happen to have. Some liberal, others conservative. But it's one thing for sure: not very representative of the population.
Several of them are lifers, too. Year of first term: 1978, 1987, 1983, 1981, 1997, 1995.
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