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Vasquez and Redner mention a highly simplified model of political opinion dynamics. It consists of a population of leftists, rightists, and centrists. The leftist and rightists never talk to each other but they do talk to centrists. When an extremist of either type talks with a centrist, one of them convinces the other to change his mind, with the winner depending on the sign of the parameter r. If
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