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But if this process is as you describe, won't the moderate voters eventually start electing independent candidates?
by squiggleblaz 9y ago
But if this process is as you describe, won't the moderate voters eventually start electing independent candidates?
- int_19h 9y agoThe problem is that this process drags aside the two parties to the point where moderate voters in each are further away from each other than they are from extremists in their own party. More specifically, the other party becomes less acceptable - e.g. most people who voted for Moore in Alabama didn't really like him, but they couldn't fathom voting for his opponent, because of his position on one or the other wedge issue (e.g. abortion).