re: Why aren't these conservative geniuses talking about repealing the 17th?

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I think people should worry MOST about their local politicians, then state, then Federal.

Today, I think if you grabbed 100 people at random anywhere in America, they couldn't even begin to tell you who their state Rep or Senator is. Probably can tell you their Federal Rep/Senator, and they all think we elect a King for President.

You're right. Liberals ran around doing victory laps after electing Obama and got smeared EVERYWHERE else.

That shite would NOT have happened absent the 17th. I don't see liberals having the "we have the Presidency, no big deal" attitude then.

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I completely agree with you, but sadly this is the result of when power shifts from the States to the central government, which is what the framers were trying to avoid.

State elections don't matter, because in large part states don't matter. The national government is almost universally all-powerful. That's why the Democrats cared more about the Presidency than getting hammered in state and local elections.