[WhiskeyX]

“No one to the right of Dianne Feinstein would ever be in the Senate again.”

Perhaps that problem could be solved by requiring the first Senate seat to be appointed by the state assembly majority leader and the second seat appointed by the state assembly minority leader?

[no-to-illegals]

The math adds up from your suggestion. Majority of states under control of whatever party controls the Senate.

[nickcarraway]

How is that going to help? A Democrat or Republican state legislature is not going to put a conservative in the Senate. Not in any one of the 50 states.

[A'elian' nation]

“Perhaps that problem could be solved by requiring the first Senate seat to be appointed by the state assembly majority leader and the second seat appointed by the state assembly minority leader?”
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That sounds like craven compromise to me and totally defeats the idea of repealing the 17th Amendment. We would be right back to the same city mouse/country mouse government we have now.

The idea is for citizens to elect their state legislatures. Republican legislatures will appoint Republican senators and vice versa. If a state likes progressive govt. so be it. People will vote with their feet.