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With the Euclidean distance, and how we embedded the different priorities voters have on multiple issues in our model, we now have a unified model which can naturally deal with voters having strong ideals, degrees of compromising, etc. We could even model the dynamics of voters by using the notion of "effort to move around opinion units".
 
Note that there's still a distance between someone who is indifferent and anyone with ana more defined 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 not equal roles. The indifferent voter is on average 25-30% closer than a resolute centrist to any random opinion, so it is generally more neutral as a baseline.
 
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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