[EM] Interesting use of Borda count

[Anthony Simmons]

Interesting use of Borda count.  Note that one voter insisted
on interpreting it as CR.  (There was obviously no strategic
reason to vote the way she did.)


>> Terrorist attacks top news story in AP poll

>> SURVEY: Journalists put Afghan war in No. 2 spot

>> David Crary; The Associated Press

>> From the first hijacking to the collapse of the second
>> World Trade Center tower, the terror attacks of Sept. 11
>> spanned less than three hours. But the effects were
>> profound and long lasting, at home and around the world.

>> Understandably, the attacks were the unanimous choice as
>> the top news story of 2001, according to The Associated
>> Press' annual survey of its members.

>> The story received a first-place ranking from all of the
>> 354 AP newspaper and broadcast members who voted on the
>> year's top news events. The war on terrorism, including
>> the campaign against al-Qaida and the Taliban in
>> Afghanistan, was the overwhelming choice as the No. 2
>> story of the year.

>> The deaths - and widespread fears - caused by anthrax-
>> tainted mail ranked as the No. 3 story, followed by the
>> start of a recession.

>> Amanda Bennett, editor of the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-
>> Leader, made only one entry - the terrorist attacks - on
>> her ballot even though 10 choices were allowed.

>> "The gap between Number One and Number Two is so huge that
>> it's not worth going there," she wrote.

>> This was the 66th year that the AP polled its members. A
>> first-place vote gave a story 10 points, a second-place
>> vote 9 points, and so on. The top story last year was the
>> nearly deadlocked presidential election.