[TigersEye]

Don't you mean that it reduced the power of a State's elected (and, perhaps, unelected) officials who would otherwise have chosen the State's senator, and transferred that power to the State's electorate?

Except for the unelected part you are right. (state legislators are all elected I think) And it has been to the ruination of the Republic and a net loss in state's powers.

[BikerNYC]

Why is a State's power identified by the wishes and interests of its elected officials and not by the wishes and interests of its electorate?

[TigersEye]

Two other Keyes-Omamba articles:

Obama's backpedaling is a disappointment

Keyes says he wants rumble with Obama