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8. Rural America already over represented with US Senators.

Sat Jan 26, 2013, 02:51 PM

Jan 2013

Montana with a pop of 1 million has 2 US Senators and Calif with 30 million also gets 2 US Senators.

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Good way to put it n2doc Jan 2013 #1

Yes, very insightful! eom Kolesar Jan 2013 #2

Paul Bibeau has been very humorous here on DU. JaneyVee Jan 2013 #3

Thank you! paulbibeau Jan 2013 #7

I heard from the Roanoke Times yesterday Oilwellian Jan 2013 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author davidn3600 Jan 2013 #5

This is a huge issue upi402 Jan 2013 #6

Rural America already over represented with US Senators. ErikJ Jan 2013 #8

I actually like that balance of populace and states. OneTenthofOnePercent Jan 2013 #10

Undemocratic ErikJ Jan 2013 #11

Pelosi's house put out 400 bills 2006 to 2010 ErikJ Jan 2013 #15

That is a somewhat reasonable argument. OnionPatch Jan 2013 #16

It's worse than that krispos42 Jan 2013 #12