BTW, number of tea party Senators that would be elected by state legislatures? Probably ZERO.
Who cares who the State’s select over the long run in all other respects.
What is important is that the States will be disinclined to elect folk that vote to rob them of their power to govern the state independent of Washington D.C.’s dictates, unlike the people whom MOST of the time simply want issues addressed nevermore who addresses them. Much to the destruction of our Federal Constitutional system of competing state powers.