Voters who supported Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso in their most recent general elections = 440,734Sure. Whatever lets you sleep at night.
NYC voters who ranked Zohran #1 in the *primary* = 432,305
Perfect distillation of how unrepresentative the Senate is
The Senate was never meant to be representative. Until 1913 (17th amendment), Senators were appointed by state legislatures.
And yes, each state gets two Senators, regardless of population. I c Also, yes, NYC is more populous than several states of the Union combined.
But Zohran isn’t even the mayor if NYC, yet. And last I checked, NYC Mayors don’t fare well outside of NYC. Or after being mayor. And my memory goes back to John Lindsay. He was a U.S. representative; then mayor of NYC. After that? Nothing; despite being heavily touted as a Presidential candidate. Once. Sort of like…Rudy Giuliani. The man the NYC-centric press dubbed “America’s mayor.” Michael Bloomberg was supposed to be Presidential material, too. But: bupkis.
So it is a somewhat representative government after all. It just represents more than the people who voted in the NYC democratic primary. Because there are 322 million people who DON’T live in NYC, but do live in America.
Signed—one if the 4 million in the nation’s fourth largest city. With, yes, a population larger than some states. And a blue city, in a deep red state. Deal with it. The rest of us do.
(Pro-tip: with Trump touting his new line of fragrances, maybe avoid metaphors related to perfume, huh?)
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