Democrats represent many more Americans than do Republicans

The inestimable Brad DeLong and other left-wing heavyweights have been busy, busy, busy answering the question I immediately asked on the morning of November 8th - exactly how sweeping a victory had we just witnessed, however obscured it might have been by partisan gerrymandering of congressional districts and constitutionally provided disproportional advantages given to small states in the Senate. We'd already been subjected to weeks of expectations gaming by the execrable of the right-wing as they desperately tried to spin their way out of the coming catastrophe for their party by trying to suggest that anything less then the Democrats winning every single available seat should be interpreted as business as usual and a failure by the Democratic Party. To them we say, thpptht.

But I digress.

Using the results of the recent election as well as information on the population by state, we can calculate the number of people represented by Democratic versus Republican Senators, dividing the population evenly when the state has a mixed party representation in the Senate.

The results using the 2004 state populations are in the table below but here's the executive summary so those of us who are information-phobic.

In sum,
Population of states represented by two Democratic Senators:

121,008,816

Population of states represented by 1 Dem and 1 Repub:

94,138,765

Population of states represented by two Republican Senators:

77,954,300

Thus, Democratic Senators are charged to represent the interests of roughly 43 million more (give or take a million, depending on the year you use for the population figures) Americans.

43,054,516 more Americans - a difference that represents 14.66% of the total population of the U.S. in 2004.

Moreover, one might additionally note that in many of the states with a mixed party representation, particularly the larger ones (including Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Missouri, Minnesota, and Colorado) the Democratic Senator has been the more recent election of the two.

That, ladies and gentleman, is what one calls a majority party.

(For your perusal, here's the table of the results, where R = two Republicans, D = 2 Democrats, and M = 1 of each and the trailing columns are the running tallies as you go down the listfor your perusal).

State	Jul-05	Jul-04	Jul-03	Senators	Running R '04	Running D '04	Running M '04
Alabama	4,557,808	4,530,182	4,500,752	R	4530182	0	0
Alaska	663,661	655,435	648,818	R	5185617	0	0
Arizona	5,939,292	5,743,834	5,580,811	R	10929451	0	0
Arkansas	2,779,154	2,752,629	2,725,714	R	13682080	0	0
California	36,132,147	35,893,799	35,484,453	D	13682080	35893799	0
Colorado	4,665,177	4,601,403	4,550,688	M	13682080	35893799	4601403
Connecticut	3,510,297	3,503,604	3,483,372	D	13682080	39397403	4601403
DC	550,521	553,523	563,384	NA	13682080	39397403	4601403
Delaware	843,524	830,364	817,491	D	13682080	40227767	4601403
Florida	17,789,864	17,397,161	17,019,068	M	13682080	40227767	21998564
Georgia	9,072,576	8,829,383	8,684,715	R	22511463	40227767	21998564
Hawaii	1,275,194	1,262,840	1,257,608	D	22511463	41490607	21998564
Idaho	1,429,096	1,393,262	1,366,332	R	23904725	41490607	21998564
Illinois	12,763,371	12,713,634	12,653,544	D	23904725	54204241	21998564
Indiana	6,271,973	6,237,569	6,195,643	M	23904725	54204241	28236133
Iowa	2,966,334	2,954,451	2,944,062	M	23904725	54204241	31190584
Kansas	2,744,687	2,735,502	2,723,507	R	26640227	54204241	31190584
Kentucky	4,173,405	4,145,922	4,117,827	R	30786149	54204241	31190584
Louisiana	4,523,628	4,515,770	4,496,334	M	30786149	54204241	35706354
Maine	1,321,505	1,317,253	1,305,728	R	32103402	54204241	35706354
Maryland	5,600,388	5,558,058	5,508,909	D	32103402	59762299	35706354
Massachusetts	6,398,743	6,416,505	6,433,422	D	32103402	66178804	35706354
Michigan	10,120,860	10,112,620	10,079,985	D	32103402	76291424	35706354
Minnesota	5,132,799	5,100,958	5,059,375	M	32103402	76291424	40807312
Mississippi	2,921,088	2,902,966	2,881,281	R	35006368	76291424	40807312
Missouri	5,800,310	5,754,618	5,704,484	M	35006368	76291424	46561930
Montana	935,670	926,865	917,621	D	35006368	77218289	46561930
Nebraska	1,758,787	1,747,214	1,739,291	M	35006368	77218289	48309144
Nevada	2,414,807	2,334,771	2,241,154	M	35006368	77218289	50643915
New Hampshire	1,309,940	1,299,500	1,287,687	R	36305868	77218289	50643915
New Jersey	8,717,925	8,698,879	8,638,396	D	36305868	85917168	50643915
New Mexico	1,928,384	1,903,289	1,874,614	M	36305868	85917168	52547204
New York	19,254,630	19,227,088	19,190,115	D	36305868	105144256	52547204
North Carolina	8,683,242	8,541,221	8,407,248	R	44847089	105144256	52547204
North Dakota	636,677	634,366	633,837	D	44847089	105778622	52547204
Ohio	11,464,042	11,459,011	11,435,798	M	44847089	105778622	64006215
Oklahoma	3,547,884	3,523,553	3,511,532	R	48370642	105778622	64006215
Oregon	3,641,056	3,594,586	3,559,596	M	48370642	105778622	67600801
Pennsylvania	12,429,616	12,406,292	12,365,455	M	48370642	105778622	80007093
Rhode Island	1,076,189	1,080,632	1,076,164	D	48370642	106859254	80007093
South Carolina	4,255,083	4,198,068	4,147,152	R	52568710	106859254	80007093
South Dakota	775,933	770,883	764,309	M	52568710	106859254	80777976
Tennessee	5,962,959	5,900,962	5,841,748	M	52568710	106859254	86678938
Texas	22,859,968	22,490,022	22,118,509	R	75058732	106859254	86678938
Utah	2,469,585	2,389,039	2,351,467	R	77447771	106859254	86678938
Vermont	623,050	621,394	619,107	D	77447771	107480648	86678938
Virginia	7,567,465	7,459,827	7,386,330	M	77447771	107480648	94138765
Washington	6,287,759	6,203,788	6,131,445	D	77447771	113684436	94138765
West Virginia	1,816,856	1,815,354	1,810,354	D	77447771	115499790	94138765
Wisconsin	5,536,201	5,509,026	5,472,299	D	77447771	121008816	94138765
Wyoming	509,294	506,529	501,242	R	77954300	121008816	94138765
Total U.S.	296,410,404	293,655,404	290,809,777	Total	77954300	121008816	94138765
				Total	125023682.5	168078198.5	(splitting M)
					Difference	43054516
					Percentage	14.66%