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by charlesetc 1353 days ago
Don't they? Isn't that axis just "how much they like the candidate"?
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No, it is how much they like a candidate on a certain topic and then they consider all topics, which are weighted. But also the distance measurement of voting systems aren't in reality a single axis. So this doesn't really matter anyways because it is already accounted for.
The point being made about extremism hinges on the axis being "ideological left/right" rather than "how much I like the candidate"