[Will88]

You completely miss the point.

You completely miss the point. The point is, in today's political environment, who would do a better job of selecting US Senators, state legislators or the people. State legislatures are notoriously corrupt these days, and I much prefer that the people elect US Senators.

[Publius6961]

State legislatures are notoriously corrupt these days, and I much prefer that the people elect US Senators.

And what ignorant mass of morons do you suppose keeps electing those corrupt legislators?

What sort of perverse reasoning leads you to believe they would be able to do a better job choosing national senators?

[aruanan]

You completely miss the point. The point is, in today's political environment, who would do a better job of selecting US Senators, state legislators or the people. State legislatures are notoriously corrupt these days, and I much prefer that the people elect US Senators.

State legislators. They're no more corrupt than they've ever been. And the population at large is just as stupid and easily led (see the election of Obama) as it's ever been. The point is that having the senators picked by governors or state legislatures is to make an ADDITIONAL check/balance that is lacking when it's just a popular vote against the federal government.