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To: AuH2ORepublican

I need to correct you here. Election of said Senators would fall to the bodies elected AFTER said dates. Hence the Senators taking office in 2009/11/13 would be elected by the legislators in joint session by the members who won in 2008/10/12, not the prior elected body. This would alter your list...

As follows (with current in parenthesis):
AL: 1 Dem, 1 GOP (GOP won the leg in 2010) (2R)
AK: 2 GOP (but both likely RINOs, as stated) (1D, 1R)
AZ: 2 GOP (same)
AR: 2 Dem (1D, 1R)
CA: 2 Dem (same)
CO: 2 Dem (same)
CT: 2 Dem (same)
DE: 2 Dem (same)
FL: 2 GOP (1D, 1R)
GA: 2 GOP (same)
HI: 2 Dem (same)
ID: 2 GOP (same)
IL: 2 Dem (1D, 1R)
IN: 2 GOP (1D, 1R)
IA: 1 Dem, 1 GOP (same) (GOP had more seats in leg in 2011)
KS: 2 GOP (same)
KY: 2 Dem (2R)
LA: 2 GOP* (*GOP had more seats in leg in 2011, but the 2009 candidate would’ve had a divided body voting, with about an even chance it would’ve been GOP, given some Conservative Dems jumped ship then)
ME: 2 Dem (1 R, 1 I)
MD: 2 Dem (same)
MA: 2 Dem (same)
MI: 1 Dem, 1 GOP (2D)
MN: 2 Dem (same) (both Franken & Klobuchar would’ve been elected by the 2009 and 2013 members, not the GOP 2011-12 members)
MS: 1 Dem, 1 GOP (2R)
MO: 2 GOP (1D, 1R)
MT: 2 GOP (2D) (GOP held majority overall during both elections in 2008 & ‘12)
NE: 2 GOP (same)
NV: 2 Dem (1D, 1R)
NH: 1 Dem, 1 GOP (same) (GOP would’ve elected Ayotte in ‘11)
NJ: 2 Dem (same)
NM: 2 Dem (same)
NY: 2 Dem (same)
NC: 1 Dem, 1 GOP (same) (Burr would’ve been elected by leg in ‘11)
ND: 2 GOP (1D, 1R)
OH: 2 GOP (1D, 1R) (GOP held numerical majority even in 2009 by virtue of 9 seat majority in Senate to 7 Dem in House, so would’ve elected both)
OK: 2 GOP (same)
OR: 2 Dem (same — though Dems had 2 seat leg majority overall in 2011, so might’ve been a surprise)
PA: 2 GOP (1D, 1R) - (GOP holds majority in 2011 and 2013)
RI: 2 Dem (same)
SC: 2 GOP (same)
SD: 2 GOP (1D, 1R)
TN: 2 GOP (same) (GOP had majority in both bodies combined despite so-called “tie” in House in 2009)
TX: 2 GOP (same)
UT: 2 GOP (same)
VT: 2 Dem (1D, 1 Soc)
VA: 2 GOP (2D) (GOP had leg majority combined in 2009)
WA: 2 Dem (same)
WV: 2 Dem (same)
WI: 2 GOP (1D, 1R) (GOP had majority in both bodies for 2011 and ‘13)
WY: 2 GOP (same)

The numbers would then shift in the GOP’s favor to 52 Republicans, 48 Democrats. Still, you and I know those Republicans would be a ghastly collection of country clubbers, big gubmint establishment RINOs. Conservatives would be few and far between (no Ted Cruz), but would be chock full of ultraleftists on the Dem side without any accountability.


66 posted on 01/16/2013 3:09:22 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I stand corrected: I didn’t know that legislators would vote en masse when the two houses yielded different results, not that the new state legislatures would vote well past November (that wasn’t the case in 1858—Douglas was elected to the Senate over Lincoln on November 2, 1858, the same day that U.S. House elections were held). It seems to me that nowadays, were the 17th Amendment to be repealed, states would need to move up their state legislative election dates, or at least the date for opening their session, so as to meet the January 3 first day of congressional session set forth by the 20th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1933.


67 posted on 01/16/2013 5:15:28 PM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll defend your rights?)
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