After Arlen Specter joined us [?!?], it occurred to me that, hey, there goes another big state represented by 2 Democrats (kind of). Then I thought about the pissant states that have Repub Senators (e.g. Idaho).
So I decided to channel Nate Silver for a moment, and I did some arithmetic.
It turns out that the states with 2 Repub Senators have ~75.4 million citizens. States with 2 Democratic Senators have ~159.8 million. For the numerically challenged that is more than 2.11X (68 percent, ignoring the divided states). This means the 'pure' blue states have > twice the population that the 'pure' red states do...
Oh BTW, the states with 1 Republican & 1 Non-Republican, have 66.4 million citizens.
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