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Originally Posted by SebC
That isn't what I'm saying. I'm saying the center, defined by the median voter, is Liberal. How do you propose to define where the middle is (the Canadian middle), if not by voters (Canadian voters)?
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I don't propose to define where the "middle" is, because there is no such thing, as least not as measured by voters. The thrust of my argument is that despite this being a popular over-simplification, it is a measure of nothing and is completely useless, other than as an convenience for the media to pretend to understand politics.
You can't define political positions on a scale by counting popularity of those positions, or you could just as easily put the Conservatives in the centre of an imaginary political spectrum and the Liberals way off to the right, and call the Conservative voter the median. The only reason you can't do this, is because the left/right scale is INDEPENDENT of the voters, and thus you cannot change that scale due to where the voters lie upon it.