It’s been 34 years since Senate Republicans represented a majority of the U.S. population. Nevertheless, in seven of the 13 Congresses since then, Republicans were the Senate majority party. How can that be? The elephont in the room: a senator from California represents more than 39 million residents; from Wyoming, less than 577,000. But both states have the same number of votes in the U.S. Senate. “At the time of the founding, the biggest state was 13 times the size of the smallest state. Today…a few hundred thousand people in Wyoming have as much power as tens of millions of people in Califo…
