[EBUCK]

I was torn between the two, 16th and 17th.

My decision to name the 16th is that honestly I don't really understand how the 17th hurts so much. I understand that making Senators answerable to majority is bad but to what extent I haven't quite put my finger on.

Mr. Paul is a Libertarian, runnning as a pubbie so that he can get elected.

I voted a pretty good mix this last season. Example..I voted for Smith-R for US Senate but for Cox-L as governor.

[robertpaulsen]

Other than the 14th (which I'm growing to hate), the 17th further blurs the separation between the states and the feds.

Why do we need the people to vote on a representative and a senator? Who's looking after the interest of the individual state?

The 14th and 17th have combined to make the states homogenous. That's one step closer to a democracy, rather than a representative republic.

[robertpaulsen]

homogenous = homogeneous