[EL] Democrats get 10, 498, 786 More Votes for US Senate than Republicans

[Richard Winger]

Yes, the top-two system has that consequence.  Ironically California has top-two because of Republicans.  Governor Schwarzenegger, State Senator Abel Maldonado (who became Lieutenant Governor under Schwarzenegger), Charles T. Munger Jr, (then chair of the Republican Party county central committee of Santa Clara County), the Chamber of Commerce, and the Business Roundtable, pushed top-two through the legislature and provided the funding to persuade the voters to pass it.
 Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147 

    On Thursday, December 22, 2016 10:16 PM, "LMolton at aol.com" <LMolton at aol.com> wrote:
 

  Prof. Smith: Yes, the constitutional design has worked as intended to preserve the power of small states. But the cited figure is extremely misleading, because the results from California skew the results even more strikingly than in the Presidential popular vote. In the US Senate race here, the Democratic candidates received 12,244,170, while Republicans received zero. So in the rest of the USA, the Republicans outpolled Democrats by 1,745,384 votes. Larry MoltonCastro Valley CA In a message dated 12/22/2016 10:06:27 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, BSmith at law.capital.edu writes:
 Unconstitutional partisan gerrymander.

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On Dec 23, 2016, at 1:02 AM, Richard Winger <richardwinger at yahoo.com> wrote:

 
   Yet of the 34 seats, Republicans won 22 and Democrats won 12. 
http://ballot-access.org/2016/12/22/democrats-outpoll-republicans-in-u-s-senate-races-by-10498786-votes-but-republicans-win-22-of-the-34-seats/ 
 
  
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   Richard Winger 415-922-9779 PO Box 470296, San Francisco Ca 94147
 
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