Anthony Downs

Then, by the mid-1900s, political scientists started turning spatial voting models.

Thinkers like Duncan Black and Anthony Downs told us to picture voters along a line from left to right.

They proved the medium voter theorem, which shows that the candidate who sits closest to the exact middle of that line will almost always win a fair election.

And then, as we all know, The economist Kenneth Arrow in 1951, who dropped an absolute bomb on political science, calls Arrow's impossibility theorem and mathematically proved that no ranked voting system can ever be 100% perfect.