Thanks all for the responses so far.
Reason for this thread: as you may know the USCIS administers a citizenship exam. Before 2008 this exam was not standardized and highly inconsistent and I have the anecdote of my in-laws telling me how one of their exams was 90 minutes long including a short essay while the other (a year later in a different state) was five multiple-choice questions!
Anyhow, that inconsistency came to an end in 2008 when at the tail end of the Bush administration, a standardized exam was released. The result of years of development, it was a 10 question test picked from a pool of 100 questions, that you had to write in the answer for and get 6 out of 10 correct.
One of those questions is the poll question, who does a US Senator represent. And the suggested answer was, “all the people in the state.”
That was the standard exam until 2020, when in the wanning days of the Trump 45 administration, the exam changed. This time it was 20 questions picked from a pool of 128, needing to get 12 right. In addition to new questions, many of the existing questions were reworked or had their suggested answer changed. Obviously there can be many threads and discussions on this broader set of changes, but I want to focus on one. The same question asked above remained, however, now the suggested answer was “all of the citizens of the state.”
That version of the exam only lasted a year and change before the Biden administration reverted back to the original 2008 version. Needless to say Trump 47 is thinking about going back to the 2020 one.
So, I was thinking about where I would stand on this specific question and wasn’t sure so I decided to start this poll to see where people land. It’s interesting to see the contrast between the votes so far versus where several administrations have landed. Only
@Felis Leo is aligned with the original standing answer, several liberals are aligned with the Trump answer and several MAGA are aligned with something in the middle. Fascinating!