I’ve been over this with the anti-17ers and it just doesn’t benefit us on the whole (in fact, we would’ve gained fewer seats in the election than we ended up with now). Too many states would be completely closed off to us (MA, for example, we’d never elect another Republican Senator again for perpetuity - not with a 90% Dem legislature).
The benefit would come years down the road. Much of the money pressure, need to campaign, and the like would be gone or minimized, and after a while the makeup of the senate would be quite different.
And I think it would be easier to change out a senator, if a small number of state politicians were in charge of his job.
It took a few years for the senate to become what it is, I think it would take longer to get it back.
Yea, the South, midwest and uppermidwest, parts of the rust belt, mountain west would all be republicans.