http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/04/republicans-seem-to-steal-elections/
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/01/04/republicans-seem-to-steal-elections/
Once again, something doesn’t seem to add up.
On Tuesday, 22 Republicans and 11 Democrats will be sworn into the
new Congress, the 114th Congress. Twelve of these Senators will be new.
Now the GOP has a 54-46 majority in the Senate overall, matching a House
majority.
But here’s the big kicker: even though Democrats received more votes
than Republicans over the last four years in Senate elections, the
Republicans still ended up the “winners” in 2014. Americans cast 202.5
million votes to elect the current Senate, spread across three election
cycles in 2010, 2012, and 2014. Of these three elections, 49% were cast
for Democratic candidates and 46.6% for Republicans.
More specifically, according to Nathan Nicholson, a researcher for the voting advocacy group FairVote,
“the 46 Democratic caucus members in the 114th Congress received a
total of 67.8 million votes in winning their seats, while the 54
Republican caucus members received 47.1 million votes.”
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