So in principle, in that election in 2000, there was at least four candidates, as it were, four things you could do with your vote.

原则上,在2000年那场大选中,应该有四个选举人,因为你可以投出四种选票

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If you look at the '68 election, which Nixon won, Nixon sounds, on those tapes of his policies being put forth in that election, he looks extremely liberal for a Republican.

如果你回顾68年尼克松胜出的那次选举,尼克松在那些,表达他政治主张的选举录像里看起来,作为一位共和党人士的他却并不保守

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A candidate could say during an election that "I'm a moderate candidate, I'm at position 5" but you might not believe him or her.

一个候选人在整个大选中可能说,我是个中立的候选人,我的立场是5,但你不一定就相信他/她的说法

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So I think a lot of people if you go back today and you look at tapes of the Kennedy Nixon Election in 1960 some American help me out here, '60 right?

我想如果你们今天回家去看,肯尼迪和尼克松1960年竞选的录像,美国学生帮我确认一下,是60年吧

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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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Good, so we assumed, we kind of jumped to just one election and at least in the American system, for better or for worse, I could voice an opinion on that there are lots of little elections on the way.

好,让我们假设,我们把思维跳跃到某一次选举中,至少在美国社会里,无论正误,我都有权发表自己的言论,现在正有很多初选进行中

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Before you go though, let's just think about it a second, so you can think about it and talk about it at home, so what we just saw was an election in which we saw two candidates, Jean and Claire Elise, who both stood very close to each other.

在你们走之前,再思考一下,这样你们可以在家里思考并讨论,我们刚刚看到的是一个选举,在其中我们看到了两个候选人,吉恩和克莱尔·伊莉斯,她们离得非常近

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