I believe strong evidence of this would be how politicians spend the majority of their time and money campaigning in a few swing states. In strong left or right-leaning states, that majority of voters is taken for granted.
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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 days agoYou win by convincing the undecided voters in the middle. Every vote you gain from the center is also a vote your opponent lose.
Do you have evidence this is true? I have not seen it in recent US elections.
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zxqwas@lemmy.world 5 days ago
If the opposite is true we would expect to observe two parties with very different views and tending to drift further and further away from each other to capture the extreme voters.