Visualizing Congress

Max Sawicky sawicky at bellatlantic.net
Wed Jan 9 14:31:05 PST 2002


On a lot of them, we are
> actually not too far off, but my point is that having 45% of the
> population
> on your side gets you pretty much zilch-- you need the last 5% (plus some
> given Senate rules) to win.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>

Actually I'd say you need 60%. There are not too many big decisions decided on hairline majorities. -- mbs



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