Probably every senate race is illustrative of why the people have no business electing senators.
Bless you for recognizing a very serious issue, that pesky seventeenth amendment.
What I consider the more serious part of the same issue, was the failure of those writing the amendment to refer back to the Constitution.
The term limits for Representatives of the people, is two years according to Article I Section 2. The writers failed big time when they did not change the term from six years to two.