Reference to earlier thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3062826/posts
Whoops...I must have mis-typed something when I searched for it to see if it had already been posted.
This sort of begs the question: Why isn’t the Senate a Republican majority?
TC
The 17th amendment.
If senators were elected by the State legislatures, it probably would be Republican, or would at least have a chance.
As it is, the Senators are elected by popular vote (totally opposite of what the Founders wanted). So they represent individuals rather than the states, and those populous cities are a huge factor (along with the big money they must raise for elections from liberal and lobby groups. If they were just being elected by the small group of people in a state legislature, money would not be nearly the factor that it is).
That is why Constitution originally was written to have Senators be representing the STATES (a Senate of the States if you will), rather than how it is now. It was meant to be another balancing/separation of powers, and that has been totally lost.
And who pushed for the 17th Amendment? You guessed it, Progressives, in the early 20th century, when all the other messing up of our country really got rolling. An Article V convention to propose possible amendments to fix what is wrong with our country should have repeal of the 17th as one of its first items to propose.