> Especially true in the American two-party system, political parties want to maximize vote allocated to their candidate. Political parties will adjust their platform to comply with the median voters’ demand. The Comparative Midpoints Model represents this idea best: Both political parties will get as close to the competing party’s platform while preserving its own identity.

On the contrary, the ever increasing dysfunction in US politics is largely because the players have hacked their way past the constraints of this model.