We're going to imagine that there are two candidates, and what these candidates are doing is they're choosing their political positions for an election.

假设有两个候选人,而这两个候选人,为了选举必须确定自己的政治立场

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So now what I want you to think of is that at every political position there are two voters, and hence two possible candidates.

现在我希望你们考虑的是,在每个政治位置上有两个选民,因此是两个可能的候选人

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That's why all these arguments that we all get into these days about third-party political candidates what do we really need in our political culture, what would break apart the stagnation of our two-party system, if that's what people want or put more directly, will Michael Bloomberg run or not?

这就是我们今天为何面对这些争论,关于第三方党派的候选人,也就是我们的政治文化中究竟需要什么,什么能打破我们两党制停滞不前的现状呢,如果这是人民所愿,或者更直接的说,迈克尔.布隆伯格的做法行得通吗

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regardless of whether I run or not, if some other candidate is elected other than me, then they're not going to have my ideal policies.

不论我是否参选,如果除了我以外的其他候选人获胜,那么他们将不会采用我的政治理念

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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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So now we have two candidates standing who are identical, politically, they're identical.

现在我们有了两个一致的候选人,在政治上,他们是一致的

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American voters often vote based on character rather than position.

美国选民经常根据候选人的性格,而非政治立场来投票

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The candidates here are going to try and choose positions.

这两个候选人需要选择自己的政治立场

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