The Purple Principle Podcast
1) Election Reform in the Last Best Place? Voting Day 2024 in Kalispell, Montana
“You want to know why we’re polarized? You want to know why we have division?” Our featured guest Frank Garner posed this question to voters at the constitutional ballot initiative debate we attended ...Show More
Election Reform in the Last Best Place? Voting Day 2024 in Kalispell, Montana
25:17 | Dec 19th, 2024
2) Our Top 10 Predictive Insights: Explaining the 2024 Election & Beyond
The 2024 election results are in and clearly underscore a rightward shift in American politics. Most pundits and many pollsters did not foresee such a clear victory for the GOP. But some of our Purple...Show More
3) Transforming US Politics for $200 Million? Andrew Yang on Election Reform
“You meet them and you're like, ‘oh, wow, you're a good person trying to do the right thing, and there's nothing in it for you,’” says Andrew Yang, Founder and Co-Chair of the Forward Party. He’s refe...Show More
4) Reform Milestones with FairVote’s Rob Richie: Ranked Choice Voting’s First Three Decades
“It’s a thrilling year. It’s a tense year. I am a believer that this is a marathon,” says Rob Richie, Co-Founder and longtime Director of FairVote, the nation’s foremost catalyst for ranked choice vot...Show More
5) Frontiers of Election Reform (Part 2): Will Alaskans Preserve Top Four Voting?
In 2020, Alaskans passed a first-in-the-nation voting system which helped energize similar reform efforts around the country. In 2024, Alaska voters are now presented with a ballot measure to repeal t...Show More
Frontiers of Election Reform (Part 2): Will Alaskans Preserve Top Four Voting?
37:01 | Oct 9th, 2024
6) Frontiers of Election Reform: 5 Views on the Alaska Legislature (Part One)
“The notion of getting rid of a closed primary system in Alaska appealed to me instantly,” says former Alaska House Speaker Bryce Edgmon who has represented Bristol Bay and parts of the Aleutian Islan...Show More
Frontiers of Election Reform: 5 Views on the Alaska Legislature (Part One)
45:35 | Sep 25th, 2024
7) When Legislatures Act Before Citizens Vote: Colorado's Top Four Election Reform
Election reform is officially on the ballot for voter approval in Colorado this year. This “Top Four” voting system is similar to the Alaska model of a unified open primary plus ranked choice general ...Show More
When Legislatures Act Before Citizens Vote: Colorado's Top Four Election Reform
29:25 | Sep 11th, 2024
8) New Oregon Trail for Ranked Choice Voting? From Farmer’s Market to Legislature & Citizen Ballot
“I've sat in rooms where we as Democrats have high-fived when a Libertarian party candidate gets into a competitive race,” recalls former Oregon House Speaker Dan Rayfield. “That's not democracy.” “A...Show More
9) Three Election Reformers Approach the Finish Line: Will Nevada Adopt the Alaska Model?
In 2024, Nevada voters will see a ballot Question 3 strikingly similar to the question on Final Five voting that passed by 6 points back in 2022. That’s because a constitutional amendment must be pass...Show More
10) How About Treating All Voters & Candidates the Same! Paul Johnson & Chuck Coughlin of Make Elections Fair AZ
“Everybody likes to think about these reforms as being revolutionary,” says Paul Johnson, former Mayor of Phoenix, now Co-Chair of Make Elections Fair AZ, on the record number of state level election ...Show More