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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Nothing serious will ever get enacted the way the Senate is structured. So that's not a concern. But don't something like 80% of Americans support some of the measures being proposed, like background checks? It'd be like the freedom convoy, where they THINK they have this massive amonut of support country wide, but it turned out it was only a fraction of Canadians supporting their dumb asses. The US Senate is basically this. Like, look at the 2018 Senate elections...
The Republicans got almost 20% less of the popular vote, yet gained 2 seats. American "democracy" is a farce. |
To be fair you picked a pretty bias sample that shows the opposite effect you are trying to demonstrate. In that election there were 33 seats up, the Ds won 66% of those seats with 58% of the vote, meaning it's actually the Rs that are underrepresented in on that particular date.
To get a fair representation of the effect you are trying to show you would need to combine any 3 consecutive senate elections together. I'm lazy, but fairly confident that you could grab any 3 consecutive election sample from the past 25 years and find the same effect you were looking for, so even though your numbers don't prove your point, I am sure you are correct.