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Originally Posted by Ronald Pagan
Certainly it's not one dimensional.
But, to say because of which, political parties don't try to capture the centre is baseless. Regression analysis can plot a two dimensional line, but most parties cater their platforms to capture the median voter along various dimensions.
Median voter theory is the most studied and applied theory of electoral behaviour.
Read up on it.
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Read Public Choice Theory, especially libertarian public choice. Median voter theory is a sham. Lazy, lazy.