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spankalee 2 days ago  [ - ]

Yes, minority rule. You keep bringing up the presidency, but I'm talking about the Senate.

Republicans have a majority in the Senate when their senators received a minority of votes, by about 24 million votes.

newfriend 2 days ago  [ - ]

Is this a joke? You think Democrat Senators got 24 million more votes? Where are you getting these nonsense numbers?

Update

Here are some rough numbers I found quickly (because your numbers are obvious nonsense):

  President
    R - 77.3m - 49.8%
    D - 75.0m - 48.3%
    Others - 2.9m - 1.9%
  Senate
    D - 55.9m - 49.1%
    R - 54.4m - 47.7%
    Others - 3.7m - 3.2%
  House
    R - 74.4m - 49.8%
    D - 70.6m - 47.2%
    Others - 4.6m - 3.1%
Looks like the system is working to me. The Senate vote not withstanding of course because of some smaller states, but it's not some extreme miscarriage of justice as you imply. The majority party won and is currently enacting policies that voters wanted. I'm sorry that your beliefs aren't as popular as you thought.
spankalee 2 days ago  [ - ]

Sorry, I copy and pasted wrong, the Democratic senators represent 24M more people, and had about 2.8M more votes, yet have 6 fewer seats counting the independents that caucus with the Dems.

So fewer voters and constituents for a pretty significant majority in senators.