Our founding fathers were idiots. Make no mistake about it. To appease slave states they gave all this power to states regardless of their size. The whoppers being: 1) every state gets at least 3 electoral votes, 2) Every state gets two Senators and 3) States have the ability to draw their own congressional districts. But it’s ok, if you want to amend this stupidity, they gave us a simple methodology: by getting 2/3 of the state legislators to agree to change it. But just because we are powerless to change this travesty, we should not ignore the fact that the plurality of Americans’ political preference is steamrolled every 2 years. Yet this inequity is politely ignored by our left-wing press (owned by corporations which as we all know heavily skew left).
Presidential elections are one of the few times we see how losers are actually winning. But it is always presented as sort of an FYI thing and never with any outrage (A loser is now the president of the winningest country in history!). When Al Gore decided to contest Florida, Republicans and some of the press referred to him and us “sore losers”, not sore winners who magically lost. Gore won by 550,00 votes, more than 1% of the vote. Why there was no pressure on George Bush to concede is beyond me.
Once again it occurred with Trump 2016. Of course he is delusional, but his assertion that it was a landslide because he wound up with a significant electoral vote count advantage despite losing by 3 million votes (2%), was not ridiculed sufficiently by mainstream press for my taste.
Finally, in 2020 we were told that this was a razor-thin close election. No, it wasn’t. Biden won by over 3 million votes. Almost 3%. When George Bush inexplicably won the popular vote by 3 million votes he called it a mandate.
But we knew all that. Most of America was duped with the conventional wisdom of our pathetic press corps, but we’re well informed, we knew that injustice of it all (not that anyone would ask us. We know nothing about lighting). But what about this past Senate race? Can you find the nationwide breakdown of voting anywhere? CNN? MSNBC? Even our beloved Kos? I can’t. So I took a deep breath and added 68 very big numbers - some them over 5 million (I don’t want to boast, but I have several years of Arithmetic in my educational background). 68 represents the number of vote totals from the Democratic and Republican candidates in the 34 Senate races. The Washington Post which was my source for the data said there were 35 races, but I couldn’t find the last one on their map. It’s ok. One more race in either direction will not have much of an effect on the results of my adding which was this:
35,373,372 votes for Democratic Senate Candidates
36,159,683 votes for Republican Senate Candidates
Very close! Republicans even got slightly more total votes. And Democrats somehow retained control of the Senate? Rigged Election! Fake News! Pedophiles! Wait, calm down Q. Here are two more numbers:
Republicans won 20 Senate seats
Democrats won 14 Senate seats
So with basically the same amount of votes Republicans got 6 more Senators. Such a deal! Doing some dividing we get:
2,526,669 for each Democratic Senator elected this election
1,807,984 for each Republican Senator elected this election
More dividing and we get that the Republican votes per Senator total is 71.6% of the Democrats, which can also be described as being 28.4% less and boom! My headline was not click-baiting bullshit!
How do they do it? Well unlike us who have to resort to the dark arts and the sweet sweet blood of innocent, newborn babes to get our electoral magic to happen, Republicans do it the old-fashioned way: using the stupidity and lack of foresight of our founding fathers.
Who wants to add up 870 numbers to see what the carnage for the house was?