[central_va]

Who cares? Illinois is going to have 2 liberal Senators anyway. You live in a one party corrupt state, similar to most Yankee states, so quit imposing your crap on the rest of us. Repealing the 17th would vastly improve the Senate for most of the non corrupt sates. My advice get out there. Move to Texas or somewhere south. Shouting from inside the toilet that is smell like crap is stupid, get out of the toilet.

[BillyBoy]

>> Illinois is going to have 2 liberal Senators anyway. <<

Peter Fitzgerald
U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1998-2005
Conservative Republican
Elected to office

Everett Dirksen
U.S. Senator from Illinois, 1951-1969
Conservative Republican
Elected to office

And that's not even counting the RINO Senators from Illinois during recent decades (Mark Kirk, Chuck Percy, etc.) who would have never been Senators if Speaker-for-life Mike Madigan got to make the pick instead of the voters.

Tell me again how repealing the 17th "wouldn't matter" in majority Democrat states?

[BillyBoy]

>> My advice get out there. Move to Texas or somewhere south <<

The advice of the anti-17th amendment crowd is always "if you don't like your state legislature, MOVE!", so I will use your own logic and return the favor. If you don't like the way the U.S. Senate is chosen, my advice is to move to Canada or someplace north. Then you can rest assured that politicians will choose your Senators for you. Canadians hate their system, so feel free to go up there and champion how great it is to have politicians appoint Senators for life with no accountability from voters.