Sentences with phrase «median voter»

It wasn't like the median voter was going to forget that they disliked Bush's handling of Iraq, or that they would have concluded, from this one attack by an Al - Qaeda affiliate, that Obama's whole approach to terrorism was a failure.

Even if they thought McCain was wrong, the median voter would hardly doubt that he was sincere and informed (by the standards of public officials.)

The median voter could at least respect McCain's political courage, public spiritedness, and seriousness, even in disagreement.

That isn't necessarily what the median voters wants.

The median voter will be somewhere on the spectrum of abortion restrictions.

Talking about the evil, partisan, intrusive IRS will not get the median voter to support a middle - class tax increase that is also a high - earner tax cut.

The median voter likely believes that Romney is a competent executive.

Obama's foreign policy is unpopular, but, facing a constrained choice, the median voter would probably prefer Obama's foreign policy mistakes to those of the second President Bush.

Motivated constituencies focused on a single issue usually trump the more loosely held views of the median voter.

The median voter isn't going to go for it and neither are the «somewhat conservative» voters.

That is probably much closer to the position of the party's median voter than the Senate's Gang - of - Eight plan.

At first, I thought Rove had just given up on talking to the median voter and decided it was easier just to produce an ad sucking up to his donors.

But we need to grasp reality, which is that the interests, mentality, rhetoric, and conditions of life for our establishment have gotten out of alignment with the median voter, and this underlies — and to a great degree explains — today's populism.

Second, if party supporters tend to have views closer to the median voter in the population at large than party members, then it will still be the case that opening up selection to party supporters, even under a relatively closed primary system, will tend to push candidate selection closer to the views of the median voter in the population as a whole.

First, if the primary is purely open, then it isn't true that it will only push selection closer to the median voter among a given party's supporters.

His argument is that it only pushes selection closer to the median voter among supporters of the party.

Will does directly address the criticism that open primaries risk being bad for democracy by pushing candidate selection towards the preferences of the median voter.

At the time of writing Congress was the dominant party in India, and it was believed to occupy the policy - space which attracts the median voter (and thus, it is the optimal position to occupy).

I am really unconvinced by the worry about the median voters.

In a primary system where anyone can vote regardless of their values, the result could become diluted (ie approach the median voter) and become open to sabotage.

And crucially, the «median voter» isn't going to go and vote in an open primary.

Your hypothetical «median voter» is going to hold very different views depending on where they live - so an open primary in Oxford or Camden is going to be very different to one in rural Sussex or Cornwall.

The famous Meltzer - Richard economic model of redistribution essentially assumes that if the median voter has an income below the mean, the only thing that prevents them from setting a tax rate of one hundred percent is that rich people might stop working so hard.

A party that continually loses elections because it's too far removed from the political center or because it appeals to too narrow a range of voters should seek to remedy that by expanding its coalition or moving toward the median voter — perhaps by compromising some of its ideological goals.

But it isn't good politics for her to trumpet a liberal transformation of the court when she's trying to win over the median voter, who may well be skeptical of more judicial activism.