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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Doesn't matter how you try to rationalize it, SebC, the Liberals only carried the same 40% of the country the Conservatives had. But if pretending that median voters matter more than other voters helps you sleep at night, feel free. I might suggest, however, that that is the kind of arrogance that has reduced the Liberals to a bare shadow of what they once were.
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Originally Posted by DFO
It doesn't matter where in the spectrum you think the Liberals were the time. Fact is the Liberals never had more than 41% of the popular vote - meaning the other 59% voted elsewhere.
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Under any reasonable voting system, the median voter is in the government. In Rep-by-Pop, any logical coalition includes the median voter. In a two-party system (i.e. in the absence of vote splitting), the government includes the median voter... and when it doesn't, it's considered a distorted result.
When the Liberals were in power, there were voters to the left, and voters to the right... that makes their government more reprensentative of the electorate as a whole than the current conservative government.
Like it or not, the median is a useful aggregator for representing a sample. Perhaps even more useful than the mode, which is what that damn plurality transplant99 keeps going on about is.