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So, the Senators that confirmed Kavanaugh represent 44.2% of the population.

At the end of the article, the writer included this:

There are two responses that are sure to ensue from this article and that I will dispatch with here, long past any of those eager to offer them will have stopped reading.

The first is the common complaint that polling is hopelessly flawed and inaccurate, a complaint that is generally offered only about polls that the reader doesn’t like. Anyway, it’s not true.

The second is that America is a republic, don’t you know, and this is how the system was built to work. To which the curt response is that, yes, as someone who writes about politics for a living, I am aware of the Senate and the electoral college. It is worth noting, though, that this structure can at times conflict with the precept that all men are created equal.