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Note that there's still a distance between someone who is indifferent and anyone with an opinion. This makes sense, as it takes effort to convince someone to care. In polarizing situations, the indifferent voter and the undecided voter (the centrist) have similar but nor equal roles. The indifferent voter is on average 30% closer than a strong centrist to any random opinion.
The earth-mover's distance obeys many nice properties which preserve important features we want in this space of opinions, like a notion of partial orders which is required to rank compatibility across an issue in a consistent way, compatible with the overall geometric structure in multiple issues.
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