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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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From: TimF11/3/2008 8:18:09 PM
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“The country is centrist”
November 1st, 2008 · 5 Comments

I feel like I’ve read that line a few times in the last week, as though it counted as some kind of empirical observation about the electorate. Isn’t it just, you know, a tautology? France is “centrist” too, relative to the distribution of political opinion there.

Update: A commenter suggests that “the country is centrist” just means that the distribution of political opinion is a normal/bell curve rather than, say, a bimodal distribution. This had occured to me, but sounded like a weird way to put it. At a second look, though, that’s probably the reading that makes the most sense.

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