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"Scammon and Wattenberg (1970) argue that one can obtain great insight into U.S. politics by observing that the median voter is a white, 47-year-old wife of a machinist from the suburbs of Dayton, Ohio. By our reckoning, the two-thirds pivotal voter in the RCPD was a male, ethnic Russian, 56-year-old chairman of a large collective farm in Bryansk Oblast." Myagkov, Mikhail and D. Roderick Kiewiet (1996) Czar Rule in the Russian Congress of People's Deputies? Legislative Studies Quarterly, Vol. 21, No. 1 (Feb., 1996), pp. 5-40