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iluvtennis

(19,872 posts) Wed Feb 5, 2020, 06:01 PM Feb 2020

Lawrenece O'Donnell:The 48 Senators who voted GUILTY represent 18 million MORE people than the 52 NO

Lawrence O'Donnell
@Lawrence
The 48 Senators who found Trump GUILTY represent 18 million MORE people than the 52 who voted not guilty.

Link to tweet

https://www.businessinsider.com/half-of-the-us-population-lives-in-just-9-states-2016-6

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Now ain't that a blip. The way the senate is structured really needs to change. The number of senators per state needs to be representative of the population of that state.