No, it's not. Mr. Copelovitch is simplifying the Senate changes by aggregating the numbers. Senators are elected on a state-wide basis. It gives a false metric of how things have shaken out, especially considering that both Senatorial candidates in California were Democrats.
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I mean, that's six million+ votes right there, for either Feinstein or De Leon. That throws his supposition off right there.
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New York's Senate race was 3.7 million Democratic candidate votes to 1.9 million for the Republican candidate. All for one Senate seat. And some states didn't have Senate races this year. South Carolina didn't, for instance.
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Oh, come on. We all knew, despite the media's efforts to drive the narrative differently, that the red state Senate races of 2018 made it practically impossible to flip the Senate, just as we also know that the Republicans are MUCH more vulnerable than Democrats in 2020.
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GOP has ***22*** seats at risk in 2020 compared to 12 Dem, the opposite of this cycle. Of the 12 Dems, the only one who might look vulnerable demographically is Doug Jones. He just needs show his win wasn't an anomaly. The other 11 Dems should be fine, but several GOP could flip.
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Did you know the names Beto O'Rourke and Andrew Gillum two yrs ago? These are relative newcomers who managed to gain national name recognition. Both Rick Scott & Ted Cruz were already well established in their states, and would have been expected to win with far higher margins.
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Dems came very close in Florida, Georgia, and Texas. Dems flipped governorships in *Kansas*, Wisconsin, Maine, Illinois, Nevada, New Mexico, and Nevada and WON the House with record minority candidates and women. Trump's agenda now has a formidable check.
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If you look at the GOP record in Kansas over the last couple of decades, it's hard to separate how much credit should go to the Democrats for flipping the seat, and how much should go to Brownback, Kobach, et at. for wedging the seat on such a well-balanced fulcrum.
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The Senate (and by extension the electoral college) is broken. And it is going to get worse.
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In CO, we just voted to end gerrymandering. We need referendums on every 2020 ballot to end it across the country.
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Reza, you should read this and hold back on this particular factoidhttps://twitter.com/schwarz/status/1060151592018759680?s=21 …
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This math is so bizarre.. Is the basic premise of the tweet that each state’s number of senators be based on its population? Because we’ve already got that. It’s called the House of Representatives, who btw won big last night.
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America is a Republic. North Korea is a democracy.
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Moronic statement. Blocked.
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Dems won a majority of Senate races last night. And two Dems were on ballot in CA. It’s only broken bc irresponsible people like yourself are pushing this narrative.
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Let me help you out, since you obviously failed US Civics: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise …
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It's working just how the founding Klancestors wanted to maintain White male supremacy.
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