I guess they're elected officials and their voters are not finance theorists and don't think of this in these terms.

我想这是因为他们是当选的官员,而投票的不是金融学家,也就不会用金融术语思考和表达。

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and he was able to make his successor elected,

他还能让他的继任者当选，

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Well assume that we're in a plurality election here, so the winner is the person who gets a plurality.

假设我们在进行一个多数制选举,所以当选者是获得票数最多的人

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I'm proud to say that I have been involved in most of the president's policy decisions, beginning before he was president all the way through to the end.

我可以自豪地说,我参与了总统的大多数政策决定,在他当选总统之前就开始了,一直到最后。

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Let's assume that B is equal to $2, so the spoils of government are $2 and entering costs you $1, so C is $1.

假设B等于2美元,当选的战利品2美元而参选成本是1美元,C是1美元

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She doesn't get to be president, sorry and you end up with a left wing president, Which you didn't like.

她不会当选总统,并且造就了一个,你很不喜欢的左派总统

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And the president, on many occasions, took unpopular positions that he thought were the right policy because that's what he thought he was elected to do was to use his best judgement and that judgement didn't necessarily need to be the most popular thing around.

许多场合下总统，都会采取并不受推崇的做法,但他认为是正确的政策,因为他认为这是他当选总统该做的,就是运用他最好的判断力,这种判断未必是,最受欢迎的。

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So again, if you're at X and the winner is at Y, it hurts you minus the distance between X and Y, in terms of your unhappiness, about having a winner who's far away from you, winning.

再说一遍,如果你在X且获胜者在Y,它对你的伤害等于X和Y之间的距离,即,当选人和你之间的距离,这就是你在选举之后郁闷的程度

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