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Column | Why Thune won: Small-state senators rally around their own, not Trump

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The US Senate picks one of its own and true to the founder's idea that small states get proper place in Congress. Every state however small gets 2 Senate seats. And small states have represented both parties for most of its history. Mike Mansfield of Montana for Democrats, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, and Thune of South Dakota to mention only a few. History is important including the 60 vote rule and giving the "minority a voice," for Thene the history of Teddy Roosevelt got him all Dakota and Wyoming, as TR spent a lot of time in Dakotas.



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