Well…My my….Worlds collide.<\/p>\n
Today, the DLCC made a post <\/a>about the Seventeenth Amendment, referencing<\/a> this Arkansas Senate candidate who said:<\/p>\n “I’m not sure that the 17th amendment was a smart thing to do… We need to go back and get like the founding fathers suggested.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Now, I am a little disappointed in my DLCC friends.\u00a0 They claimed that the US Senate would have 62 Democrats without number 17.\u00a0 Now, I have yet to thoroughly run the numbers (c’mon Minnesoata), but I believe Democrats would only have 55 seats in the Senate without the 17th Amendment.\u00a0 The DLCC Communications team (looking at you Matthew) really should have referenced The Southern Seventeenth Amendment Swing<\/a> .\u00a0 If they wanted numbers, simply seek the older version posted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, I believe that the DLCC was off because they did not consider staggered terms and classes of Senators.\u00a0 2008 was an interesting year.\u00a0 In the indirectly elected Senate, Democrats gained seats in Iowa, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, and New Hampshire.\u00a0 But the Republicans took Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Kentucky.<\/p>\n And who said that the Seventeenth Amendment was irrelevant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well…My my….Worlds collide. Today, the DLCC made a post about the Seventeenth Amendment, referencing this Arkansas Senate candidate who said: “I’m not sure that the 17th amendment was a smart thing to do… We need to go back and get like the founding fathers suggested.” Now, I am a little disappointed in my DLCC friends.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-steve","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}