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Originally Posted by Muta
That's because of the gerrymandering going on down there, isn't it?
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Not in the Senate, as those elections are conducted at the State level. In the Senate the issue is that the GOP started the night with 40 Senators who were not even up for re-election, and were defending deep red turf that was held by Democrats in a number of places. That, along with the fact that in the Senate a rural vote really counts for way more than an urban one does: consider that Iowa, a state of about 2 million people most of whom are in rural areas has the same number of Senators as California, a state of 40 million people (most of whom live in urban areas).
The divide in the U.S. is increasingly urban vs. rural.