Most Americans know that the government is run by two parties – the republicans and democrats. But very few Americans (like myself) know how many republican and democrat senators there are in the Senate, and if there are more than just two parties what are they? Well in doing some research I have found the names of these outlier parties and the senators who belong to them. Here’s how it works, the 100 Senators of the 111th Congress are divided up in to four parties. Like I said before there are the republicans and the democrats who make up the majority of the Senate, and then there are two outsiders. Bernie Sanders is from Vermont and represents the Independent Party and Joe Lieberman is an Independent Democrat from Connecticut. When I look at the chart it makes me wonder if there were more independent senators or just less republican and democrat senators would Americans be represented better? I’m not sure about that but maybe the future will see the birth of a new party in American politics.
Source:<http://www.senate.gov/index.htm>
More Party Diversity Needed in Senate
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