This past midterm
election the Democrat Senatorial candidates received seven-million more votes
than the Republicans, but the Republicans hold the Senate.
The Constitution
of the United States has Gerrymandered the elections of Senators. Every state in the U.S. gets two
Senators. North Dakota with one-half
million population gets the same number of Senators as California that has 39
million population;
½ Million =
2 Senators
39 Million =
2 Senators.
There are
more Red States than Blue States and with the Cult following of the party of
Donald Trump, the Senate will for the future likely remain in the hands of the
Republicans.
With the
Senate in Republican control the chance of impeachment of Donald Trump,
regardless of his crimes and misdemeanors, is zero. The Republican Senate is still in control of
appointments of judges, including for the Supreme Court, and the confirmation
of any Trump appointments.
It seems we
are now down to two branches of government: the Congress and the Executive-Judicial
Reality sux
the Ol’Buzzard
You're too pessimistic. The fact that some states are red now doesn't mean they'll be that way forever. Arizona was considered deeply red, a thoroughly entrenched seemingly permanently Republican state, and the last I heard the Democratic candidate for Senate was winning. Mississippi has to have a run off election because the Republican there wasn't able to get the required more than 50 percent of the vote -- a few years ago it would have been a walk-away for the Republican. Yes, it's true that the crazier Cheetolini acts the more his hard core supporters love him, but their numbers are shrinking.
ReplyDeleteAs for the two senators per state, is it really gerrymandering when it's part of the Constitution?
But...at least your state got a shiny new, blue governor -- Congratulations! We were not so lucky in TN.
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