The Senate Is an Institutional Barrier 😈 👹 💵 🎩 to Democracy
BY Sohale A. Mortazavi, Truthout
PUBLISHED November 9, 2018
Even though Democratic candidates for the Senate won millions more votes than their Republican challengers, it's the Republicans who will maintain control of the Senate. This is now the sixth out of the last 10 Congresses in which the GOP has controlled the Senate without representing a majority of voters, raising questions about whether this legislative body needs reform -- or abolition.
Even entirely excluding the more than 6.4 million votes cast in California, where no Republican senatorial candidate appeared on the general ballot,
Democrats still secured 6.4 million more votes nationally, an 8-percentage point lead.Excellent article: https://truthout.org/articles/the-senate-is-an-institutional-barrier-to-democracy/