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Ed Helms

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  1. “People would say to me when I worked on the Daily Show, they're like, you know, I get all my news on the Daily Show. And I was like,”

    2025-04-28 · On with Kara Swisher · From The Office to SNAFU: Ed Helms on History, Politics & Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Right. And the reason for that is that every candidate is actually now answering to every voter. Because every voter has a say in where a candidate will rank on their ballot. So if you're a far-right candidate or a far left candidate and you're just throwing red meat at your base, then most voters are going to look at that and be like, that's a little extreme. So I'm going to put them lower in my ranking. So then the most extreme people tend to get marginalized. And that's not a bad thing.”

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  3. “And I think there are real questions about how do you do Process of calculating ranked choice results. And that's a fair question. But I think there's answers to that.”

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  4. “It's confusing, which is a canard. Like it's not confusing. Ranked choice voting is just when you rank all the candidates based on your favorite voting.”

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  5. “Well, you just answered your question. Why don't people like it? It's because the system that best represents the largest number of voters sentiment. And when you have entrenched minority power, as we have in this country, It's very hard to sell someone unranked choice voting. I have this feeling I get into these debates. I have a family member who's very conservative and I've gotten into these debates with him about ranked choice voting. And everything that he comes back to me with, I'm just like, this is just Kool-Aid. Like you have definitely, you're not citing to me there's no intellectually honest argument against ranked choice voting. There's only cynical propaganda messaging. And unfortunately, that's been incredibly effective.”

    2025-04-28 · On with Kara Swisher · From The Office to SNAFU: Ed Helms on History, Politics & Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “He really was. And then for some reason, I had that too. I grew up with a kind of like preoccupation with fairness. And I would get really frustrated and confused and angry as a kid when I felt like bullies were getting the best of somebody.”

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  7. “It's a good question. The why of it all, which I haven't, I don't know that I ever kind of buttonholed him on that question, the why, but he's someone that I think always had a sort of like justice streak, you know, someone who wanted just to see fairness around him in the world and growing up in the South. Really during civil rights. You know, he saw so much social injustice around him. And this is me speculating somewhat, but I think that that sort of galvanized a desire to see a better world and effect change in however he could. And, you know, he worked hard on Andy Young's campaign for mayor of Atlanta. And I can remember Andy Young coming to our house when I was a little kid and just being like, wow,”

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  8. “And that sort of galvanized me more. I grew up in a very politically engaged home. And so I've always been a little bit of a politics junkie and a news junkie. And my dad collected campaign memorabilia, which was really fun. We just always had old, you know, I grew up in Atlanta and he was a big Jimmy Carter Southern Democrat, my dad. And so we had all this, I don't know, just campaign paraphernalia around the house. So it was always something. And why was it?”

    2025-04-28 · On with Kara Swisher · From The Office to SNAFU: Ed Helms on History, Politics & Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “I don't overthink it. It's not a complicated calculus, honestly. I had been posting some things that supported the campaign and then they reached out and I was like, anything I can do. This feels like a critical moment. And I'm there. And they said, well, can you be in Reno in like two days? And I was like, actually, I can. That works. And so I bounced out there and... And I met Tim Walton. I was incredibly impressed and charmed. He's just a lovely guy.”

    2025-04-28 · On with Kara Swisher · From The Office to SNAFU: Ed Helms on History, Politics & Comedy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT