| ▲ | alexpotato 2 days ago | |
A lot of the comment seem to ignore Hotelling's Law [0]. When applied to politics the game plan is: - In a two party system, start by framing your message to the middle of your party - This means you capture everyone from middle of your party to the political middle of the population (we'll call these the "closest to center") AND get a few folks farther out from your middle - This will help you win the "primaries" - After that, you want to slowly drift towards the middle of the population. This allows you to pull most of the "close to center" folks from your party AND people from the other side NOTE: the other side should be doing the exact same but coming from the other direction. Now, people may also ask "Why not start out in the population middle??". The reason is that you: a. don't win any primaries this way b. you get "crowded out" by the winners of the two party primaries | ||