Senate Democratic minority snagged 20 million more votes than GOP majority

Rss@dailykos.com (kerry Eleveld)
Wednesday, January 07, 2015, 7:24 pm
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The people spoke all right-and they gave the 46 Senate Democrats now in office 20 million more votes than the 54 Republicans who are currently running the show, reports Dylan Matthews at Vox.
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But here's a crazy fact: those 46 Democrats got more votes than the 54 Republicans across the 2010, 2012, and 2014 elections. According to Nathan Nicholson, a researcher at the voting reform advocacy group FairVote, "the 46 Democratic caucus members in the 114th Congress received a total of 67.8 million votes in winning their seats, while the 54 Republican caucus members received 47.1 million votes."
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Part of this discrepancy is due to the fact that most of the GOP's senators come from less populated states.
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The problem isn't that the deck is stacked in favor of Republicans. The problem is that the deck is stacked in favor of small states, which receive equal representation in the Senate despite dramatic variance in population.
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But it still means that the Democratic minority garnered 20 million more votes from U.S. citizens overall than the GOP majority
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