The Purple Principle

Nonpartisan podcast for independent-minded Americans exploring the perils of partisanship in U.S. politics, society and daily life. Join & Support us with an Apple Podcast Subscription for bonus content.

The Purple Principle is a news podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 101 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Purple Principle, a news show with 101 episodes published.

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  Episode #23

  Election Reform in the Last Best Place? Voting Day 2024 in Kalispell, Montana

  Dec 19, 202425 minS4

  <p>“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 in Helena, Montana and many similar events. “We have a system that allows for it and the pressure that is put on people… to vote a certain way.”</p><p><br></p><p>A Republican member of the Montana House from 2015 to 2023, Garner spent over a year as the primary spokesperson for Montanans for Election Reform, the group that gathered 200 thousand signatures and fought off four lawsuit...

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  Episode #22

  Our Top 10 Predictive Insights: Explaining the 2024 Election & Beyond

  Nov 20, 202416 minS4

  <p>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 Principle guests from the past four seasons have recognized the important dynamics at play behind these results. Such as Carlos Curbelo on the shift of Hispanic voters and Thomas Edsall on the longstanding drift of the Democratic Party away from economic issues and toward identity politics. </p><p>In this bonus episode, we ask you, our Purple Principle listeners, to select your favorite guest insights u...

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  Episode #21

  Transforming US Politics for $200 Million? Andrew Yang on Election Reform

  Oct 31, 202419 minS4

  <p>“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 referring to largely volunteer teams around the country that have raised the profile for election reform in 2024. “I mean, what could be more worthy of praise than that combination of attributes?”</p><p><br></p><p>Yang was a relative unknown upon entering the 2020 Democratic Presidential primaries. But that did not last long. He energized young voters with his informal approach to campaigning an...

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  Episode #20

  Reform Milestones with FairVote’s Rob Richie: Ranked Choice Voting’s First Three Decades

  Oct 23, 202432 minS4

  <p>“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 voting elections. “There's moments of excitement– of cresting hills, of victories and sometimes defeats.”</p><p><br></p><p>In this Purple Principle episode, Richie recounts the highs and lows throughout the steady progression of ranked choice voting in US elections since co-founding FairVote three decades ago. For example, the successful implementation of RCV elections in Portland paved the way for the nation’s first statewide...

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  Episode #19

  Frontiers of Election Reform (Part 2): Will Alaskans Preserve Top Four Voting?

  Oct 9, 202437 minS4

  <p>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 this same Final or “Top Four” system that includes a unified open primary of all candidates plus a ranked choice general election. Meanwhile, voters in Nevada, Idaho, Colorado and other states consider measures to pass major elements of  the “Alaska model.”</p><p><br></p><p>This Purple Principle episode features discussion with election law expert and reform advocate Scott Kendall, a major catalyst behind “Top Four” in the frontier state. He explains t...

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