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tldr: Article claims elections are close because the two major parties are intentionally ideologically similar. I am not impressed by the article, which does n
by saalweachter 10y ago
tldr: Article claims elections are close because the two major parties are intentionally ideologically similar.
I am not impressed by the article, which does not delve into actual party positions, reasons voters give for voting, or well-known blocks of voters, and instead gives an analogy about ice cream vendors.
- waqf 10y agoThen you missed the point of the article, which is about why the parties in a system like the US's can be expected to be ideologically similar, based on game-theoretic considerations. I mean, you may have the opinion that it's a trivial or incorrect point that wasn't worth expressing, but you seem not to be aware that it's there at all. (tl;dr: you didn't like the article because it had the temerity not to be the article you were expecting. Who knows, if one read such articles one might learn something one didn't already know!)
- saalweachter 10y agoWell no, it's more that I thought it was completely insane to state that the Republican and Democratic parties are ideologically similar. They diverge radically on a large number of issues that voters care about. So talking about "why they become similar" is inane.