[Impy]

Retarded. Giving me instead of a piece of crap politician my own vote for Senator means my vote doesn’t count?

Just imagine President Trump out of the stump “We need to give career politicians the ability to choose Senators behind closed doors. Drain the swamp?”

Yeah, NO.

[BillyBoy]

Interesting that almost no mainstream Republican will endorse this crap, and the ones that do almost inevitably lose.

The weirdest example was Joe Miller running on "its horrible that the Alaska government gave the Governor's daughter a U.S. Senate seat, but things would be soooooo much better if they'd just repeal the 17th so she could have that seat for life without pesky elections in the way!"

That, and Rick Perry running a schizo platform of "its horrible that we amended the constitution so voters can choose the legislative branch instead of having politicians appoint them, but things would be AWESOME if we the amended the constitution so voters can choose the JUDICIAL branch instead of having politicians appoint them!

[BillyBoy]

Interesting that almost no mainstream Republican will endorse this crap, and the ones that do almost inevitably lose.

The weirdest example was Joe Miller running on "its horrible that the Alaska government gave the Governor's daughter a U.S. Senate seat, but things would be soooooo much better if they'd just repeal the 17th so she could have that seat for life without pesky elections in the way!"

That, and Rick Perry running a schizo platform of "its horrible that we amended the constitution so voters can choose the legislative branch instead of having politicians appoint them, but things would be AWESOME if we amended the constitution so voters can choose the JUDICIAL branch instead of having politicians appoint them!

[Repeal The 17th]

“... We need to give career politicians the ability to choose Senators behind closed doors ....”
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In the current system, the candidates on your ballot are selected that way.

[Gigantor]

In our system of checks and balances, right now the States do not have representation in the Senate- why are you against the States having representation?

[ZULU]

I agree with you.

[Theophilus]

It used to be much more difficult for a state legislator to be a "career politician" but then that's yet another emerging problem.

As a resident of the Commonwealth of the turtle, I think we are Exhibit A of how the current career Senator system isn't working.

[Luke21]

My gosh, I get tired of hearing that he legislature should have my vote for the senate. They would have put in Jeff Flake and kept him there. Another layer of the powerful between them and us.