You are probably correct. I think they would have to curry favor with their state governing bodies. Unless you'd see interest groups combine to support state elections with the intent of influcencing the appts. of certain senators. Then some states may support each other to get the money or maybe support a warroom effort because of pressure from the interest groups.....
I think they would have to curry favor with their state governing bodies. Unless you'd see interest groups combine to support state elections with the intent of influcencing the appts. of certain senators. I think that was exactly what was going on at the turn of the century (land barons, rail barons) that prompted the 17th amendment in 1913, although there were also special interests who stood to gain via the 17th amendment.
However, that was at a period where the West had just been settled, many territories were becoming states, and global communications and single-day continental and trans-oceanic transportion were the thing of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Jules Verne.
Things are different today.
-PJ