Talk:Classes of United States senators

message: Dumb question: when writing about senators, is it proper to use "senators" or "Senators"?  I've read that it should be capitalized only when used as a particular senator's title or when referring to the Senate itself.  Otherwise, it shouldn't be.  But even the Senate's own web site is inconsistent (bottom of  compared to ).  Thanks!  wknight94 01:32, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears to me that it's like you said. For example: Senator Johnson, but the senators are... I think. It does appear to be somewhat inconsistant. --Mathwizard1232 19:54, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This may be WP:OR and may not be notable, but I was crunching some numbers and the difference between Democratic Senators in Class I and Class II as of January 2007 is 12.  This is the largest difference since Hawaii was admitted to the Union.
No difference of Democratic Senators larger than 8 sustained between any 2 classes in the same direction for more than one cycle.  Additionally, after a difference greater than 8 occurred between two classes, the next applicable election brought that difference to under 9 each time.
What does this mean for the next 4 years?  This means that Chuck Schumer simply has to play defense to maintain the majority and it would be likely that the Democrats will add to their majority, especially if a Republican is elected President in 2008.
I would venture to guess that we should get used to having a Republican President and a Democratic Congress for the next few years.  WatchingYouLikeAHawk 21:24, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Extreme imbalance between Class I and Class II

message: The bulleted list after "in 1788, each state appointed its two Senators for, respectively" makes no sense, as it implies that the states, rather than the senators were divided into classes. Presumably it should say that some states have Class I and II, some Class I and III, and some Class II and III senators, and the 2-, 4-, and 6-year initial terms should go with the respective classes. KCinDC (talk) 21:39, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: State classes?

message: It seems to contain an extremely large amount of useless detail (the names of specific senators in each group) which makes it hard to actually understand what is being said. The language is also very odd and seems stiff and old fashioned. There's odd formatting in capitilization of dates for no obvious reason. The first paragraph is just a quote from the constitution, although it's not in quotation marks or particularly clear. Seems in need of work.
As a non-american, this articles does a very bad job of explaining the classes in the senate and why they exist, and I found it very unhelpful. Mrhthepie (talk) 20:43, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Section 

message: So, this is all fine and good, since the two classes with the same number of senators are the two smaller ones.  What happens when the two equally-sized classes are the larger ones?  Which of the two gets a new senator (the other senator goes into the small class)? 
What happens when all three classes are of the same size (as would be the case after a 51st state, for instance)?  How are two classes chosen among the three?
Could someone clarify? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShinyGee (talk • contribs) 02:35, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That was exactly the situation in the 1959 Hawaii example discussed in the article. After Alaska's senators were assigned classes, Class I had 32, and the other two had 33. The senators drew lots to see which would be Class I, the class that had to brought up to 33, and who would be Class III. Presumably the Class III was chosen because its next election was farther off than Class II. (The next Class II election was 1960, and the next one for Class III was 1962.) -Rrius (talk) 04:01, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rules for new states 

message: You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Roman numerals for Senate classes. —Markles  01:58, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Congress#Roman numerals for Senate classes

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:List of current United States Senators which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 11:15, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: Would be good to cover, or at least mention, how these are dealt with.  All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 22:47, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Death and resignation

message: The introduction is far more confusing than enlightening. The three groups are not "staggered". The article doesn't get around to finally saying what the three groups are until way, way, way, way down in the article. This is extremely bad writing.15:54, 6 September 2020 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Very, very bad article