LoriQuaid@LostInCalifornia @KeepTakingTheSoma When a person ran for the U.S. Senate as originally conceived, it cost nothing. The candidate's campaign amounted to talking to people in the state legislature. Moving to direct elections by the populace meant that campaigns were now expensive, and the candidate became beholden to the political party that was financing him/her. The political parties grew in power, and the region that was supposedly being represented lost power
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