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Huffington Post | by Aaron E. Carroll | Tue, Dec 22
And, unlike in the House of Representatives, the Senate is not representative of the people of America. It's representative of the States themselves. And the States do not necessarily represent America. A fair number of small states (at least by population) are conservative. They just are....
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