Danielle Allen

Right now, as I'm sure you know, you vote in the primary corresponding to your party registration, and if you're unenrolled, you can choose to pull a Republican or Democratic ballot in the primary.

Joined by Danielle Allen, the James Brian Conant University professor at Harvard, where she leads the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation.

Danielle Allen supports Question 3.

It's great to see you again, by the way.

Thanks for being here.

I'm sorry, Marjorie.

Okay, that's okay.

Let's start with you, Danielle Allen.

We

had Danielle Allen, who's the main proponent, Bob Kuttner, who can't stand it.

But for people who don't recall, explain to us what this thing would do should it pass.

Yeah.

Well, we actually are going to leave this.

This is question three again, and we will have a debate.

And if you want to go back to... youtube.com and search, you can see Danielle Allen from Harvard and Bob Kuttner from the American Prospect.

Can you describe this thing that you've done that is simple and great and so long overdue, this app or this web thing you've got that will help people both understand and remember what the hell their positions are when they go into the voting booths?

We said, "We'll do it where- wherever you want.

You can pick the moderator, and you can pick the rules, and we'll agree to them." She demanded that it not be live-streamed, Danielle Allen, I believe her name, and she demanded the right to, back to the rape, retroactively remove her consent within three days if she didn't like the way that it went.

So we said no.

It moved to UPenn with Professor John Zimmerman.

We

had Danielle Allen, who's the main proponent, Bob Kuttner, who can't stand it.

But for people who don't recall, explain to us what this thing would do should it pass.

Yeah.

Well, we actually are going to leave this.

This is question three again, and we will have a debate.

And if you want to go back to... youtube.com and search you can see danielle allen from harvard and bob cutler from the american probably from the american prospect can you describe this thing that you've done that is simple and great and so long overdue this app or this web thing you've got that will help people both understand and remember what the hell their positions are when they go into the voting booths

We've not done this before, but we just thought there are nine questions.

Podcasting was like my second mountain, as David Brooks would put it.

One of the shows I launched, Talk of Politics and Religion, this one, Talk of Politics and Religion Without Killing Each Other, was lending some great guests, including David Brooks, as well as David French, Danielle Allen, Wajahat Ali, Christy Todd Whitman, Lisa Sharon Harper, so many other accomplished, interesting voices.

Knowing that booking high quality guests is a hurdle other podcasters struggle with, I decided to throw my hat in the ring with organizations such as Podcast Movement and Podfest when they put out calls for speakers, not to sell anything, just to help other producers and start to feel more a part of this new community.

But each time I got to the part of the applications where they ask about race and gender identity, I couldn't help but wonder if my answers would be read as shorthand for uninteresting, uncool, and unwanted.

I think I have her name written down here somewhere.

Um, oh, yeah, Danielle Allen.

What's her name?

So she had no problem legitimizing, but she demanded that she, uh, approve the debate before the release, so no live streaming.

This is from...

Vote Yes on Question 3, authored by Danielle Allen from the Coalition for Healthy Democracy, based in Foxborough.

Yeah, I've kind of pointed this out already once is that if you have two Democrats making the way out of the primary, it really defeats the point of so-called more voices because you want to get the same choice in November, even if the Democrats are not identical.

Because again, we are individuals in politics.