usna1985
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To answer your question, it's mixing apples and oranges.
Take a competitive state such as CA or VA. Within those states, there are super-competitive districts and less-competitive districts. The Senators need to cover the state in terms of their nominees. Some of them will be superstars and some very good but not superstars because they will be a cross-section of most (in CA, obviously not all) districts. In the super-competitive districts with lots of terrific schools, the Rep can spread the wealth and still have mostly supercompetitive folks on his/her slate. In the less-competitive districts of those states, maybe only one candidate on the MOC's slate will be competitive nationally. So, super-competitive Rep could have 8-10 folks from his/her slate receive appointments, the non-competitive Rep might have 1, and the Senator maybe somewhere in between.
Take a competitive state such as CA or VA. Within those states, there are super-competitive districts and less-competitive districts. The Senators need to cover the state in terms of their nominees. Some of them will be superstars and some very good but not superstars because they will be a cross-section of most (in CA, obviously not all) districts. In the super-competitive districts with lots of terrific schools, the Rep can spread the wealth and still have mostly supercompetitive folks on his/her slate. In the less-competitive districts of those states, maybe only one candidate on the MOC's slate will be competitive nationally. So, super-competitive Rep could have 8-10 folks from his/her slate receive appointments, the non-competitive Rep might have 1, and the Senator maybe somewhere in between.