[fetal heart beats by 21st day]

I agree with the facts here, and the goals, but wonder how it would work out in some states.

In my state, the dems manage to cover up all their scandals.

Independent news agencies get squashed very quickly.

Election fraud, FBI investigations of legislators, and endless dirty politics are kept out of the papers, or spun into Republican witch hunts. Votes are ignored when they don’t like the outcome, and all kinds of ingenious rules are discovered to make undesirable votes go away. There is alot of corruption.

I don’t trust the dem machine here with choosing senators. I am not saying the 17th amendment shouldn’t be revoked, but I do see my senators occasionally now. I can’t imagine all the backroom deals that might go on here as they negotiate who to send to DC.

[Sterling Saunders]

“I can’t imagine all the backroom deals that might go on here as they negotiate who to send to DC”

At their worst, they wouldn’t be any different from what is going on right now. When a candidate gets on the ballot it’s only with permission of the party bosses and, once elected, they have to toe the party line or lose the party’s support (read money) for the next election. Look what the Dems tried to do to Lieberman

[Political Junkie Too]

I don’t trust the dem machine here with choosing senators. I am not saying the 17th amendment shouldn’t be revoked, but I do see my senators occasionally now. I can’t imagine all the backroom deals that might go on here as they negotiate who to send to DC.

Hopefully, repealing the 17th amendment would reconnect local politics to national politics. If you don't like the Senators that your state legislature keeps sending to Congress, begin changing your local state representation. It may take time, but that's how it's supposed to be done.

-PJ