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Dec 17, 2019 · In a new memo, co-founder Colin McAuliffe writes that “the Senate is an irredeemable institution” that’s biased 3 percentage points in the GOP’s favor and systematically underweights the...
- Matthew Yglesias
[The New York Times] According to one metric, the voting power of a senator from Wyoming is 66 times greater than a senator from California — one of the highest such disparities in the developed...
Nov 21, 2023 · Today, the Senate is a distinctly undemocratic institution that has worked, over the past decade, to block policies favored by a large majority of Americans and even a solid majority of...
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Jun 27, 2006 · Encouraged by an alliance of liberal interest groups, the now minority Senate Democrats – no longer able to block the most controversial nominees in committee – resorted to the filibuster.
Nov 17, 2023 · The result is the Senate of 2023, in which an institution never designed to be fully representative has become even less so, leaving many more citizens with a diminished voice in the body’s ...
Apr 9, 2019 · The Democrats’ Electoral College disadvantage was caused by narrowly losing states with a lot of electoral votes and running up large margins in states they won.