"Tea Party" saves Obama/Dems from a 61/39 Senate

[user12345]

The GOP has a structural advantage in the Senate due to the large number of small, heavily GOP states in the Plains and West.

This will be the reason that winning the Senate will be harder and harder for Democrats since their voting population is stacked in a few states. The GOP easily wins a bunch of low populated states that get the same amount of Senators as states with much larger populations. Unless the amount of Senators changes to be based on population the Democrats will have a rough future.

[The Vorlon]

The GOP has a structural advantage in the Senate due to the large number of small, heavily GOP states in the Plains and West.

This will be the reason that winning the Senate will be harder and harder for Democrats since their voting population is stacked in a few states. The GOP easily wins a bunch of low populated states that get the same amount of Senators as states with much larger populations. Unless the amount of Senators changes to be based on population the Democrats will have a rough future.

So you are proposing something like, well, the House of Representatives?

[Panda Express]

Each state should get 1 senator for every Starbucks store in that particular state.

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[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Obama Says "thanks"

2010 Senates that GOP "should" have won

O'Donnell - (Connecticut Delaware - If Castle isn't primaried by a witch, he wins easy, was up 10 in all polls)
Mourdock (Indiana)
Akin (#legitimate Rape) Missouri
Berg - (North Dakota)
Angle (Nevada)
Raese (West Virginia)
Buck (Colorado)

You can argue a couple of these (maybe WV and Col) But you have to believe in 2010 (which had a higher GOP vote than 2014) that mainstream GOP candidates could have picked off a few more senate seats....

I don't think it was as much as Angle was a terrible candidate (for NV) than Harry Reid is a master at ground game there. The result would have likely been the same no matter who he ran against. He's basically Houdini.

Let's see if you're still calling him Houdini when he loses to Sandoval in 2 years. Given the 2010 climate, Lowden would probably have defeated Reid if she hadn't lost the primary to Angle.

[NerdyBohemian]

When Tom Tillis and Pat Roberts are considered "moderates" than you know the tea bag extremism has become the norm of the GOP.