http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/07/1356150/-Senate-Democratic-minority-snagged-20-million-more-votes-than-GOP-majority?detail=email
The people spoke all right—and they gave the 46 Senate Democrats now in office 20 million more votes than the 54 Republicans who are currently running the show, reports Dylan Matthews at Vox.
But here's a crazy fact: those 46 Democrats got more votes than the 54 Republicans across the 2010, 2012, and 2014 elections. According to Nathan Nicholson, a researcher at the voting reform 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."
Part of this discrepancy is due to the fact that most of the GOP's senators come from less populated states.
The problem isn't that the deck is stacked in favor of Republicans. The problem is that the deck is stacked in favor of small states, which receive equal representation in the Senate despite dramatic variance in population.
But it still means that the Democratic minority garnered 20 million more votes from U.S. citizens overall than the GOP majority.
just like 2012 when republicans running around beating their chest saying "the American people voted us back in" reality check their gerrymandering and voter obstruction allowed them to steal that election Dems got the over a million more popular votes, IMO the deck is stacked until the gerrymandered states again represent it's populace, not as many like them as they want to say those staying home this midterm just handed it to them no silver platter just indifference hope that was a teaching moment, like the store stay home miss the sale. and sect 4 of voter rights act is restored.
