New political science research in @TheEconomist finds that U.S. Senate malapportionment has the largest right-wing bias of any chamber among many democracies https://t.co/XkwXnKaoBC
— Stephen Wolf (@PoliticsWolf) March 16, 2023
We previously noted ⬇️ how the GOP has long won power with fewer voters & constituents than Dems https://t.co/T2bIwiBpgN pic.twitter.com/FIKAoPupyA
Today 41 Senate Republicans representing just 69M Americans will block the For the People Act that 225M Americans support. A system in which 69M people overrule the will of 225M people is not a functioning democracy.#AbolishTheFilibuster
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) June 22, 2021
12% of the country is represented by 41 senators – the U.S.'s (incredible outlier) system of governance empowers that 12% to block what 88% of the country wants to do. McConnell's dismissal of the legitimacy of huge swaths of voters is just the natural end result of that system https://t.co/U1GKK75xUX
— Steve Morris (@stevemorris__) June 14, 2021
15 states with 41 million people elect 30 GOP senators
— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) May 28, 2024
California with 39 million people elects 2 Dems
Wyoming has 67x power of CA in Senate and 4x power in Electoral College
Listen to my new @reveal @motherjones episode on danger of minority rule https://t.co/Ty9rjVYEIG pic.twitter.com/GFE3MO9vUL
How long will a super-majority agree to the rule of a super-minority? “By 2040, ~70% of Americans are expected to live in the 15 largest states. They will have only 30 senators representing them, while the remaining 30% of Americans will have 70 senators.” https://t.co/JjMpkhScBc
— Omar Wasow | @owasow@bsky.social (@owasow) August 25, 2021
Sad! 