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Leftist New Republic Editor Calls to Scrap
Electoral College, Add New States to Fix
‘Ideological Imbalance’

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Posted By: ladydawgfan, 8/16/2025 6:00:34 PM

A leftist columnist recently told the New York Times he believes America needs a new Constitution. During his interview, author and contributing editor of the New Republic, Osita Nwanevu, laid out the reforms he thinks should be proposed when asked to provide the “new Constitution” he believes that nation should have, the Times reported on Thursday. He stated: We could start with the thing that I think most Americans think about when they think about the undemocratic nature of our system, a reform that most Americans have supported for a long time, which is dealing with the Electoral College.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Catherine 8/16/2025 6:10:12 PM (No. 1991466)
"We can't win by the rules anymore. So I suggest we change them." The electoral college is one of the smartest things our forefathers did. This is the only way everyone gets to vote and have it count. If we drop it, only a few well populated states could pick every president from then on. So, I say leave it alone and grow up and learn your manners and try to please the people in your state so you can win elections now and then.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: earlybird 8/16/2025 6:21:40 PM (No. 1991469)
African parents; born here,
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Reply 3 - Posted by: snowoutlaw 8/16/2025 6:34:22 PM (No. 1991473)
To address the undemocratic nature of our system I propose all the gerrymandered districts be made illegal and from now on all districts will have right angles or as close to square corners as possible.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: HerbVA 8/16/2025 6:42:06 PM (No. 1991475)
Sounds like he wants to impose his peoples’ jungle culture on the USA. Foreigners who are not part of our heritage and traditions should not be a part of our self government.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Venturer 8/16/2025 6:51:03 PM (No. 1991480)
I know I want to hear the opinion of some Clown named Osita Nwanevu, I tried looking him up, they all say he is a writer and journalist for some leftist scribes. Funny no one knows where he was born , even his parents names are a secret. I don't need this butt head telling me we need a new Constitution.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: paral04 8/16/2025 7:00:43 PM (No. 1991493)
Amazing. The Electoral College was jst fine when Biden won. What happened?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: VAPMAN 8/16/2025 7:00:56 PM (No. 1991494)
We need to deport all leftists to the Congo.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 8/16/2025 7:08:43 PM (No. 1991499)
Osita? Isn’t there a h in the spelling of that name?
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Plex 8/16/2025 7:32:34 PM (No. 1991508)
The founders made great efforts to avoid the failures of democracy.. Democracy is best described as 4 wolves and a chicken deciding whats for lunch. The left doesn't care about the interests of others so they want to change the rules so that they can win all the time. Sad...
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Reply 10 - Posted by: jalo1951 8/16/2025 7:38:50 PM (No. 1991511)
The electoral college was one of the most brilliant ideas the Founding Fathers came up with. It lets West Virginia, Alabama, Utah and all the other states be on a level playing field as much as possible. Otherwise it will end up being an East Coast, West Coast, Chicago election and the hell with the rest. Don't touch our Constitution.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: Jesuslover54 8/16/2025 7:42:51 PM (No. 1991513)
Dream on, bub.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: franco 8/16/2025 8:55:47 PM (No. 1991541)
So Mr. Nwanevu is a fan of the "National Popular Vote" compact, huh. Those who were of voting age in 2004 will remember that it was a quite close election in the EVs: 286 for GW Bush to 252 for John Effing Kerry. [Technically 251 for Kerry, because one of his electors was a no-show or something.] But the popular vote wasn't close at all -- GWB won it by over 3 million. I did a back-of-envelope calculation of the EV totals that Bush would have gotten, using all of the states were part of the "compact" at the time. (A couple have dropped in the years since.) Bush would have gotten something like 430 EVs if the states pledged to the compact had followed it that year. And in 2024, PDJT also won the popular vote. But we never hear from supporters of the compact their comments on how things would have worked out in the EVs in 2024 had it been in effect. I suspect that -- like 2004 and its aftermath -- they don't want to talk about it. I'll bet Mr. Nwanevu would be similarly flummoxed if asked about this...
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Reply 13 - Posted by: BarryNo 8/16/2025 8:58:35 PM (No. 1991543)
America is under no obligation to cater to your fantasies.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: montwoodcliff 8/16/2025 8:58:51 PM (No. 1991544)
It’s called “Calvin Rules”. You make up the rules as the game progresses, especially when you are losing. The Democrats have come to the realization that they are not going to win anything soon under the rules written in 1783, probably the most brilliant, well thought out document ever written by the smartest guys ever on planet earth. While every other country is rewriting their constitution every ten years or so, ours gets amended but rarely. Osita or whatever his name is, should go back to where he came from.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: DVC 8/16/2025 9:36:23 PM (No. 1991554)
The Electoral College is a critical, crucial part of our government structure and cannot be changed.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 8/16/2025 10:07:17 PM (No. 1991572)
He might as well tell everyone to stick their finger in a light socket.
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Reply 17 - Posted by: rochow 8/16/2025 11:16:44 PM (No. 1991585)
What a jerk. Very American name as well. Where did these people find their brain???
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Reply 18 - Posted by: MickTurn 8/17/2025 12:11:31 AM (No. 1991602)
Read the Constitution Moron! Not the Communist Manifesto!
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Reply 19 - Posted by: kono 8/17/2025 1:27:30 AM (No. 1991619)
Add a right-thinking new editor to New Republic, to fix THEIR ideological imbalance.
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Reply 20 - Posted by: Strike3 8/17/2025 9:32:18 AM (No. 1991758)
I always find it amusing when these brain-damaged foreigners talk about "our system" "our democracy" etc. I trust the New England people back in 1776 who composed the Constitution based on real problems and how to solve them than some lunatic who wants to change the country to fit his own third world views. Barack Obama, Zohran Mamdani, Ilhan Omar were not available for comment and I wouldn't listen to any of them if they were.
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Reply 21 - Posted by: Kafka2 8/17/2025 12:13:55 PM (No. 1991837)
The US constitution we have today is not our first constitution and it is not the same second constitution that was ratified in 1788. Our first constitution was the “Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union” written in1776-77, adopted by Congress in 1977, and finally ratified in 1781. This constitution had many failings. The biggest being it required unanimous consent to get anything done. To correct the many problems, Congress created a Constitutional Convention in 1787 to modify the Articles of Confederation. The Convention decided to start with clean sheet of paper and write a replacement for the Articles that corrected most problems with the Articles and adopted this new Constitution in 1788. At the time, several of the states had a “Bill of Rights” in their constitutions. The new Constitution had no “Bill of Rights.” They only agreed to ratify if one was added. This was done as promised by adding them as the first ten amendments to the constitution in 1791. There have been 17 amendments to the Constitution since then. Some thoughts: The reason our current constitution is as good as it is, is we had the fresh knowledge of seem like good ideas that failed in practice. Many of the ideas currently being put forward were failures when tried in the past. Elitest believe that they know what is best when they really don’t.
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