{"id":15542,"date":"2017-07-31T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15542"},"modified":"2017-07-31T06:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T10:29:42","slug":"pandering-to-your-base-is-bad-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/pandering-to-your-base-is-bad-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Pandering To Your Base Is Bad For Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/073117_1026_PanderingTo1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"404\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sahil Chinoy wrote about political theory:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a study of elections to America&#8217;s lower house of parliament, researchers found that candidates with ideologically extreme positions were less successful than moderates.<\/li>\n<li>It was long thought that ideological extremists are effective because they energize the base and increase voter turnout for the candidate.<\/li>\n<li>However they also alarm the opposing party so much that their turnout goes up \u2013 effectively wiping out any gains.<\/li>\n<li>The effect holds true for both Democrats and Republicans.<\/li>\n<li>A lot of planning is going into America&#8217;s next set of Congressional elections in 2018 \u2013 the party that aims for moderation is most likely to be successful the authors conclude.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-fix\/wp\/2017\/07\/29\/extreme-candidates-lose-because-they-boost-the-other-partys-turnout-research-finds\/?utm_term=.56c8a81f4225\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sahil Chinoy wrote about political theory: In a study of elections to America&#8217;s lower house of parliament, researchers found that candidates with ideologically extreme positions were less successful than moderates. It was long thought that ideological extremists are effective because they energize the base and increase voter turnout for the candidate. However they also alarm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/073117_1026_PanderingTo1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15545,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15542\/revisions\/15545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}