Max Baucus

Matt Yglesias has spent a lot of time writing about malapportionment, and while it's not an exact correct example I've begun to wonder why the entire fate of our national healthcare was placed into the hands of a man who represents a state whose entire population, were it made into a city, would be only the 10th-ranked city in the whole country by population, right between San Diego and San Jose; to say nothing of the fact that you'd be hard-pressed to find a less diverse state. Interesting.