instead of a knee-jerk reaction you might consider the information at the link provided in the response just previous to yours.i believe we have been ill served by voting for our senators directly instead of allowing the state legislators choose.it was all part of the complex checks and balances system designed by some of the brightest pennies to have ever graced our planet.
I’ve been through this crap repeatedly with you guys and your pie-in-the-sky fantasies of what the Senate will be with its repeal, and you will never convince me of its soundness. All you’re doing is removing my right to directly elect a Senator (and don’t lecture me on influencing my state legislators — I’m in a VRA State Senate district and a perpetually Democrat State House and U.S. House district, meaning the only race I’ll have a say in is the Governorship and nothing else), and I will oppose that with every fiber of my being. There’s a damn good reason why the 17th was passed, and a good deal of it had to do with just how out of touch the Senators were becoming from their constituents and how more and more they were representing their own narrow personal interests and less with the Founding Fathers’ ideal of jealously standing up for their states. You’d also have a good number of states would be perpetually out of reach for electing Republican members (and even those where you’d have Republicans, the likelihood that they’d be RINOs is considerable — meaning more Lindsey Graham, McCain, Bob Bennett and Maine Twin types rather than DeMints or Coburns).
I think your side is the one with the knee-jerk reactions on this issue.
Someone says “A REPUBLIC AND NOT A DEMOCRACY” and everyone goes hog wild with approval.
Those of us who has examined this issue realistically have concluded it would be a disaster to have State Legislators appoint Senators.
People in many states have made piss poor choices of Senators. Career politicians in State Legislatures would make even worse choices. Expecting them to choose wisely is dangerous naive. They are full of rats and RINOS and yes even corrupt “conservatives”. You don’t make things better by giving politicians MORE power.