To: Txsleuth
I'm proud of our senators today. They are doing a great job in defending the Constitution, defending these Justices and listening to their base.
To: Soul Seeker
I'm proud of the Dems...They've managed to shoot themselves in the foot every time they got up. No Sheriff needed!!
1,581 posted on
05/18/2005 11:42:39 AM PDT by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: Soul Seeker
Has anybody else heard this quote from Schumer:
If each senator is assumed to represent half that state's population, then the Senate's 55 Republicans represent 131 million people, while its 44 Democrats represent 161 million.
If so, anyone know how he arrived at that number?
I used the US Census to find the population of each state. If the state had two R's, I gave that state to the Pubbies. If the state had two D's, I gave that state to the DEMs. If it had one of each, I split the population in half. Here are the results:
Total Population - 293,101,881 (state by state total is 3 million shy of the US population total listed due to Puerto Rico and DC)
States with two R's - 118,182,381
States with two D's - 121,753,948
States split - 53,165,552
Using Schumer's logic, I get 145 million (R) to 148 million (D)
They can't even get their own point correct.
1,684 posted on
05/18/2005 12:13:27 PM PDT by
Eagle of Liberty
("Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind." —Albert Einstein)
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