9 States have 18 Senators and Half the US Population

[freshwest]

221. What the HoR won't pass, they make the Senate reconcile. We are not getting the budgets passed that

We wanted. The Koches created the Teaparty and took over the House,. not the Senatem in 2010 for the purpose of not allowing the Bush tax cuts expire. Their shenanigans reduced the credit rating of the United States. They have been holding this country hostage and putting in cuts against the people's needs and the programs that Obama tried to fulill from his first day in office. I have seen these same manuevers on the state level. The power of the purse overcomes the power of debate everytime. All that has to be done is cut the money from needed programs and infrastructure. And the other point I have is that we have not made the seachange of public opinion to change the makeup of the House. Thus if we could get an amendment, which we will not, there is little hope they will not be filled by more Teabaggers. So we now have a body elected BY population as the OP is advocating in place. But it's GOP Teaparty. At this time the blue states do have more population and the Senate does not reflect it. But it was not created to do that, the House is doing that. And look what we have. Okay guys, say tomato or tomatoe, the two houses of Congress are equal in representation. But the GOP does not have the majority in the Senate and the HoR has not worked with them at all. There are a lot of things going wrong on the state level to bring in all these Teabaggers. But restructuring the Senate will not change that. I like the theory of direct representation in all elections, and the EC troubles me. If we didn't have the USSC and the EC acting the way they did, we would not have had to suffer 8 years of Bush. I gotta call it a night now and we might come to some agreement but perhaps I am looking at this in real life terms too much and not in theory as the OP does.