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Morris Fiorina hypothesized that these people act as minimax-regret strategists. A result named after these people requires that their preferences be single-peaked and either unidimensional or rotationally symmetric. One theorist analogized these people to the consumers in the linear city model and names a paradox that points out the surprisingly high number of these people. When the preferences of these people are aggregated, (-5[1])the results may be intransitive (-5[1])in a result discovered by the Marquis de Condorcet (10[1])(“con-dor-SAY”). Anthony Downs popularized a theorem named for the “median” type (10[1])of these (10[1])people. These people may rank preferences (10[1])ordinally (10[1])in a method that simulates an “instant runoff.” (10[1])For 10 points, name these (10[1])subjects of public choice theory who cast (10[1])ballots in elections. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: voters [accept median voter theorem]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Matthew SiffYale ANortheastern A62-5
Max NealHarvard ATufts B67-5
Yrwin BatanMIT ABrandeises Brew7610
Lukas KoutsoukosYale BBowdoin B8610
Eren MicheletBoston University AClark A8810
Christopher DechDiamond BrandeisBowdoin A9410
Alex JiangBrown ATufts A9510
Hanson HuynhBoston University BAmherst A10310
Dylan TanouyeTufts BHarvard A10810
Kaitlyn FarrinCarabrandeisYale C11510
Rajat SethiNortheastern AYale A11910