Well assume that we're in a plurality election here, so the winner is the person who gets a plurality.

假设我们在进行一个多数制选举,所以当选者是获得票数最多的人

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We're going to imagine that there are two candidates, and what these candidates are doing is they're choosing their political positions for an election.

假设有两个候选人,而这两个候选人,为了选举必须确定自己的政治立场

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If you're relentlessly selfish and calculating you would say, the chances that I decide the election are zero, so I'm just not going to bother.

如果你唯利是图,精于算计,你会说,我的投票能够决定选举的概率是零,所以我根本无需投票

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We're on the verge now of the first southern primary in this year's election, in South Carolina, and everybody is wondering, is there a new modern South Carolina or not?

我们马上就要迎来在南卡罗来纳州举行的,今年总统大选第一轮南方预选,每一个人都想知道,是否会出现一个崭新的现代的南卡罗来纳

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You know that you're not going to decide the election, so what does it matter?

你知道你并不能决定选举结果,那投票还是不投票又有什么关系

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So the idea is, any candidate who stands in this election, you know who that candidate is, you know whether they're right wing or left wing, so they can't tell you they're something else.

意思是,选举中的任何候选人,你知道他们是谁,你知道他们是左派还是右派,所以他们不能说他们在别的立场上

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