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Sunday, January 04, 2015

Democrats Still Got More Votes Than Republicans

Across the 2010, 2012, and 2014 elections., the current Senate of 46 Democratic Senators got just shy of 68 million votes while the 54 Republicans about to take office only got 47 million votes.

I wonder if conservatives truly understand what this means...

11 comments:

Nikto said...

It means the founders, in order to make a country, had to settle on a grand compromise that set up a system of government that prevented larger states from steamrolling smaller states.

It also means that the minority can steamroll the majority, sabotage any reasonable compromise, bankrupt the country and generally make the nation ungovernable. It's profoundly undemocratic. And it's the source of so many of our problems now that the Republican Party has completely abandoned the founders' ability to make grand compromises.

It's also how many of the founders wanted it. Back in their time only male land owners could vote in most states. Women, artisans, slaves, tenant farmers -- the vast majority of the population -- had absolutely no say.

But again, the founders believed in the power of compromise and exercised it constantly. However, it was easy when the big bad Britain was threatening to kill them all, and they were all wealthy land owners with pretty much the same interests.

Now that we're the big bad, and the franchise has been extended to everyone, and there's such a huge disparity in the level of wealth among people who can vote, it's not clear the founders would make the same decisions.

juris imprudent said...

Do conservatives know what it means? Shit, do you know what it means?

Or are you calling yourself a conservative? Wouldn't be too big a surprise since you are confused about so many things.

GuardDuck said...

Well at least nikto understands some of what it means, even if he is foolishly shortsighted in his analysis of it.

juris imprudent said...

I love it.

You really ought to try to think through things before you shit out the prog-o-sphere talking points.

Ahahahahahahhaahaha - yeah, like that would ever happen.

Anonymous said...

I have never seen anyone so easily duped by false reports as often as he does. Then doubles down on them in many cases. You would think promoting lies would get embarrassing ...but not for this ideologue apparently.

Mark Ward said...

I corrected the post to read across the three elections.

The fact remains, however, that Democrats get more votes than Republicans, regardless of election year. Do any of you understand what this means?

juris imprudent said...

that Democrats get more votes than Republicans

You didn't read the link I gave you, did you? Nope, you just continue to suck furiously on that JuiceBoxMafia cock.

You don't understand what the contention means because you are relying on a source that is fundamentally ignorant but thinks themselves so fucking clever.

"I think that's about the worst thing I've ever heard" - Count Rugen

Mark Ward said...

You didn't read the link I gave you, did you?

Did you?

But the 20 million statistic isn’t at all about vote share. This is just a total of the number of votes that victorious Senate Democrats won, compared to the number of votes claimed by victorious Senate Republicans.

The fact that the 46 Democrats got more votes than their 54 Republican opponents isn’t “crazy,” to borrow Matthews’ term, at all. Nor does it tell us much of anything about malapportionment in the Senate. The reason that victorious Democrats won 20 million more votes than victorious Republicans is that half of the victorious Democrats won in 2012, while 80 percent of the victorious Republicans won in 2010 or 2014. Presidential elections have higher turnout than midterm elections. So a win in 2012 will necessarily bring more votes than a win in 2010 or 2014, even in a similarly sized state.


Are you getting it yet or not?

http://markadelphia.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-challenge-of-2014-elections.html

juris imprudent said...

Hey stupid, the Senate composition doesn't give a fuck about population representation. Not ever.

Only Total Fucking Morons (tm) think that talking about votes and Senate representation has some meaning.

This is when I really pity that you are a tenured teacher of civics. The poor children of your district.

Mark Ward said...

So, you're telling me you're pissed off because Republicans are a dying party...:)

juris imprudent said...

Gosh M how many times have I spoken of my enduring love for all things GOP?

Jibe away, it doesn't detract from the appalling ignorance of both you and the Vox author.