[EM] Primaries?

[Adam Tarr]

>I think the issue with multi-winner primaries is not whether they are
>proportional, or even whether the elect clones, but whether they advance
>at least one winnable candidate to the general election.  But I suppose
>a proportional system would be more likely to do so due to the "shotgun
>effect" of advancing dissimilar candidates-- resulting in at least one
>electable candidate, along with a few destined to crash and burn.

Right, this is exactly what I meant by:

> > Again, none of this argues that perfect PR is needed in a primary.  But
> > completely ignoring PR issues is a mistake, too.

To look at it another way:

>>So, you think it would be acceptable, even desireable, to have three 
>>candidates from a party's centermost faction enter the general election, 
>>even when the party has a broad range of viewpoints?
 > Yes, especially if this faction has the best possibility of winning the 
general election.

If this is what you want, then electing every candidate from the same 
faction is a BAD idea.  Lots of redundancy, no robustness.  That faction 
might be the one with the best shot in the GE, but it might not, too.