Red Signs, Blue Signs

Per Matthew's request (and I prefer Choatean to Choateish, by the way), I have tried to break down the Senate of the new 109th Congress by the senators' sun signs.

• Aries (March 21-April 19) 5
  
  • Republicans--4 (Lincoln Chafey, John Ensign, Orrin Hatch, Richard Lugar)
    
  • Democrats--1 (Patrick Leahy)
    
• Taurus (April 20-May 20) 12
  
  • Republicans--7 (Mike Crapo, Jon Kyl, Dick Shelby, Pat Roberts, David Vitter, Rick Santorum, Pete Domenici)
    
  • Democrats--4 (Bryon Dorgan, Deborah Stabenow, Benjamin Nelson, Ronald Wydon)
    
  • Independent--1 (Jim Jeffords)
    
• Gemini (May 21-June 20) 4
  
  • Republicans--2 (Christopher Dodd, Jay Rockefeller)
    
  • Democrats--2 (Lisa Murkowski, Gordon Smith)
    
• Cancer (June 21-July 22) 8
  
  • Republicans--5 (Lamar Alexander, Larry Craig, Lindsey Graham, Kay Bailey Hutchison, George Voinovich)
    
  • Democrats--3 (Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin, Barbara Mikulski)
    
• Leo (July 23-August 22) 3
  
  • Republicans--2 (Norm Coleman, Elizabeth Dole)
    
  • Democrats--1 (Barack Obama)
    
• Virgo (August 23-September 22) 8
  
  • Republicans--6 (Robert Bennett, Sam Brownback, Jim DeMint, Chuck Grassley, John McCain, John Sununu)
    
  • Democrats--2 (Daniel Akaka, Daniel Inouye)
    
• Libra (September 23-October 22) 8
  
  • Democrats--5 (Jeff Bingaman, Maria Cantwell, Blanche Lincoln, Bill Nelson, Pattie Murray)
    
  • Republicans--3 (Chuck Hagel, Trent Lott, James Talent)
    
• Scorpio (October 23-November 21) 12
  
  • Democrats--7 (Joe Biden, Barbara Boxer, Robert Byrd, Hillary Clinton, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Jack Reed)
    
  • Republicans--5 (Jim Bunning, Saxby Chambliss, James Inhofe, Ted Stevens, Mel Martinez)
    
• Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) 9
  
  • Democrats--5 (John Kerry, Max Baucus, Mary Landrieu, Harry Reid, Chuck Shumer)
    
  • Republicans--4 (Wayne Allard, Richard Burr, Thad Cochran, Susan Collins)
    
• Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 8
  
  • Republicans--4 (Mike DeWine, Johnny Isakson, Jeff Sessions, John Thune)
    
  • Democrats--2 (Evan Bayh, John Corzine, Tim Johnson, Mark Pryor)
    
• Aquarius (January 20-February 18) 12
  
  • Republicans--7 (Conrad Burns, John Cornyn, Michael Enzi, Judd Gregg, Arlen Specter, Craig Thomas, John Warner)
    
  • Democrats--5 (Jim Carper, Mark Dayton, Herb Kohl, Frank Lautenberg, Paul Sarbanes)
    
• Pisces (February 19-March 20) 11
  
  • Republicans--6 (George Allen, Kit Bond, Tom Coburn, Bill Frist, Mitch McConnell, Olympia Snowe)
    
  • Democrats--5 (Kent Conrad, Russ Feingold, Edward Kennedy, Joseph Lieberman, Ken Salazar)
    
  
  

I don't really know exaclty how to crunch these numbers, but here are a couple of thoughts at first glance:

Given that the Senate as a whole has 55 Republicans, 44 Democrats, and 1 Independent, its seems to me based on this small sample that Aquarius, Taurus, and Virgo are the "red signs"; Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius are the "blue signs"; and the remaining six signs are the "swing signs."

I also thought to compare number of senators of a certain sign with the distribution of presidential signs, and I found that the percentages are generally very close, with the exceptions that Leos seem more likely to president, and that Pisceses and Virgos (especially Republican Virgos) are more likely to be in the Senate. If of course it turns out that 12% of the population as a whole turns out to be Scorpio, then maybe this doesn't say much, but if in the general population all the signs occur at the same frequency, then mayber there is something about Scorpios, Aquariuses, and Tauruses being more likely to be elected to a higher office. I may have to check the House of Representatives....