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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
All you’re saying is the SF libs win the primaries. I’m sick of doing all the math around here, go cut out the south from the last Sebate vote and let’s see how safe a north only senate seat is?
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Not sure Dianne Feinstein really counts as a liberal, for that matter. [eta: Dianne Feinstein is a liberal, but she is not on the party's left wing.]
I think you may be barking up the wrong tree in looking at party affiliation for this exercise. The bigger issue is that rural interests are over-represented in the Senate, and big cities are under-represented. The current mix of Senates means, e.g., that the country spends too much on farm subsidies and not enough on mass transit. Maybe you solve this by saying that the Senate continues as-is, but that Alaska, Idaho, Montana, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma all have to share two Senators. Without doing any math, I'm guessing those states' combined population is less than Michigan's.
