I may be writing this late in the afternoon, but I ran across this early this morning, and it is as scorching of a hot take as they come
This is perhaps the worst whiny take from Democrats on why they didn't take the Senate https://t.co/TAhMnhdvbP
— William Teach2 ??????? #refuseresist (@WTeach2) November 7, 2018
The original was from the HuffPost, dropped at 12:06 am by Molly Redden and Nick Baumann
Democrats may be ecstatic that they retook the House of Representatives, but their decisive victory conceals a harsher reality: It took a landslide in the popular vote to get them here, and they are projected to lose seats in the Senate.
Those facts speak to just how far the U.S. election system is tilted in the Republicans’ favor. Through a combination of fundamental factors and partisan gerrymandering, Republicans on Tuesday retained their grip on the Senate and many state houses without a national majority.
Um, what? Do Molly and Nick even understand How This Works? Do I need to spend any time explaining to y’all how this works, including that there is no national vote for Senate seats? No, no I don’t. Perhaps if the 17 Amendment was repealed, they might have a case, but, of course, the same thing would happen in gerrymandered Democrat controlled states.
Certain factors give Republicans a natural advantage. In the Senate, the disproportionate representation of small states is part of the body’s original design. But that advantage, which benefits white voters, has become more lopsided than the framers of the Constitution likely ever imagined as the country’s population and demographics evolve. Today, 20 senators from urban states represent roughly half the country’s population, while the other, rural half elects the remaining 80.
And that’s exactly the way it’s supposed to work. But, Democrats do not like that those darned Flyover state people dare have a voice.
But, this wasn’t the only nutbaggery on the subject
https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1060175360095064064
https://twitter.com/evanchill/status/1060036810020143104
And a more generic
Looks like Dems won the popular vote by 7-9 points yesterday. That’s more than GOP margin in 1994 or 2010–both “big waves”. Gerrymandering is real. It’s why Democrats didn’t win more seats. But wins for Gov, state leg and even state Supreme Court will translate into fairer maps.
— Robby Mook (@RobbyMook) November 7, 2018
