So in politics, this is about candidates crowding close together towards the center, to try and get as many voters who are close to them.

在政治学中,这是关于候选人集中趋向中间立场,从而拉拢更多立场相近的选民的理论

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The prediction here is that the candidates are going to be squeezed towards the middle.

预测最终结果是,候选人会被挤到中间立场

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In this case, the intuition about crowding towards the center to get votes.

这个案例告诉我们的是,候选人都挤到中间立场以拉拢更多选票

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So again, they were crowding that center space.

这一次他们又都挤到中间立场上了

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They really were crowding the center.

他们实际上都聚集在中间立场

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It's called the Median Voter Theorem because the voters at the center, in this case 5 and 6, actually get to decide not just the election, but to decide therefore, what policies are put in place.

它之所以叫中间选民定理是因为,处在中间位置的选民,比如这个案例中立场5和6,实际上他们不止左右了选举结果,而且还决定了那些政策可以施行

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