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Nate Silver: Libertarians Are the Real Liberals

The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

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Efficiency and Orthodoxy in Political Parties

The insight highlights the efficiency of political parties in building their electoral coalition, where each party tends to secure about half of the vote. The snip emphasizes that a narrow margin in votes across a few states can significantly impact election outcomes. It also underscores how political parties enforce more orthodoxy by linking various issues like taxation, abortion, and marijuana legalization, which are not inherently connected, thus simplifying a multidimensional space into a two-party system.

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