Not the correct format
I actually couldn’t think of a good format for this one, what do you think is the correct one?
Advice Duck
Who is this Median? And where can I vote for them?
In Soviet Russia, you don’t vote for Median. Median votes for you.
How do you calculate the median in a vote?
not median vote - median voter. you can now try again.
And how does one find the median voter? That word “median” has a certain meaning, and I’m not sure how to apply that here correctly.
you sort the set of voters by your chosen criteria and the one in the middle is the median.
these are the “undecided voters” that every political campaign fights for. they don’t have any opinions whatsoever and make a decision by flipping a coin or by checking who has the nicest tie. they shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the polling place, yet they are the ones deciding our future.
there are some problems, we can discuss whether the set of voters follows normal distribution (very likely not) and whether we should be looking for a median (in the middle of the set, mean (arithmetic average) or a person at the midpoint of the selected ax[is/es] (answer to that will depend on how the distribution looks which i suspect will change in different countries), so the above is gross oversimplification.
I think the implication is “the median on the political spectrum,” but in any case yeah it’s a misnomer.
no, it is not. median voter is the one that is in the middle of the line of voters (sorted by whatever criteria you decide to, probably REP to DEM, or left to right).
Well, the Baileys would say…
How do you ask the median voter? We used to do that with polling, but no one answers their phone anymore.
Polling? I don’t know quite how they do it, but there are organizations like Pew Research and YouGov that do this stuff and to the extent their results are empirically verifiable they seem to know what they’re doing.
The first rule of politics is: the voters don’t matter.
The second rule of politics is: THE VOTERS DONT MATTER.
The third rule of politics is: whoever gives you the most money writes the laws.
The median voter is a lie.
Elon Musk spent half a billion this midterms, I wonder what law he’s about to write
Don’t worry, the Democrats always find a way to shoot themselves in the fucking face and blame it on the Republicans.
