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To: garyb
Basically, the nation is indeed 50/50, having a few seat majority in the senate is aberrant.

The Senate is interesting because each state gets 2 senators regardless of population. Wyoming has the same number of Senators as California even though California has has much more influence in driving the popular vote towards a 50/50 split.

I realized that this is a very big simplification, but how many of the 50 states voted Republican and how many of them voted Democrat? Multiply by 2 to get how Rs and Ds there would be in the Senate if each state's Senators perfectly matched how they voted in the Presidential race.

65 posted on 11/30/2004 11:47:07 AM PST by Chesterbelloc
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To: Chesterbelloc

True. If both Senators from each Red/Blue states were R/'s, then you would have 62 R Senators and 38 D's.

Encouraging thought.


99 posted on 11/30/2004 1:36:34 PM PST by zbigreddogz
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