Consensus?: IRV vs. Primary w/Runoff

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Forest wrote in part-

It seems to me that election methods can potentially have two kinds of
problems with clones: (1) Some methods tend to give an advantage to
parties that runs lots of clones. (2) Other methods tend to penalize
parties that run lots of clones.
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D- The *cloneness* level is somewhat arbitrary regarding less than 100 
percent clones.

Again-

N1 A > B
N2 B > A

C comes along.

If C is ranked before B by ALL the voters, then B becomes a 100 percent clone 
of C.

If only a mere 99 percent of the voters rank C ahead of B, then is B still a 
clone in reality land ???

There obviously is no magic percentage in the 50 to 100 percentage range that 
makes a defeated choice less of a clone.

Even in the original A and B pairing, one of them may be a clone in reality.

99 A > B
1   B > A

Is B a clone of A (or a direct opposite) ???