Silver is an advocate of what political scientists call the median voter theorem, which he has said is “right more often than not” and which suggests parties should nominate more moderate ...

It may be that the median U.S. voter is ready for what polling guru Nate Silver called 'a vibe shift' after the angst of the last few years You can save this article by registering for free here.

Mythical median voters serve as what is supposedly the most average, half-and-half possible citizen I can possibly breach a vote from. And that I will do. Being down with the median voter means ...

Their argument, sometimes referred to as the Median Voter Theorem, goes as follows. Imagine we could line up all 18,098,797 Australian enrolled voters from the most progressive at the extreme left ...

To fix this problem, I suggest a three point plan for reform and renewal. I covered the first part of that plan last week: Democrats Must Move to the Center on Cultural Issues ...

Mr. Drutman and Ms. Hill are co-founders of Fix Our House, a campaign for proportional representation. It’s almost Election Day, and once again, the party that wins the midterms will likely be ...

This has distanced them from the median voter, just as Wright’s cartoon depicted. We see this not only in Democratic voters’ self-reported ideology, but in their views on issues including ...

“That way you empower the median voter. That’s the big idea the Democrats should be focused on.” Republican leaders have already sought to chip away at the open primary systems those states ...