The Supreme Court Is The Median Voter

The Supreme Court Is The Median Voter

The most elusive figure in American politics is the median voter.In political science, the term comes to us from the Scottish economist Duncan Black, who proposed the “Median Voter Theorem” in the 1940s. His theory was that, if candidates and voters were aligned on an ideological spectrum, an election will always be won by the candidate whose positions are closest to those of the electorate’s median voter, since that’s the candidate who will be …