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  1. stjeanluc
    April 21st, 2013 at 10:51 pm

    Phil – You pointed out to Bill Maher's point that Democratic senators actually represent more people than the GOP one and someone made the calculation for the Gun Bill:

    http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/04/18/opening_act_63_of_the_population_and_still_losing.html

    After last afternoon's pivotal vote on Manchin-Toomey, a reader emailed to say he'd looked "at how the vote broke down if you factor in the size of the Senators’ respective constituencies." Each senator represents half a state, obviously, so he broke those populations in half.* The result: Around 198.4 million people were represented by senators who backed Manchin-Toomey. Around 114.9 million were represented by senators that opposed it. Those backing the amendment represented around 63 percent of the population.

    That's 63% of the population that is represented and it was still defeated. It's getting hard to call that a democracy now!



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