[EM] IRV's "majority winner". What if we let the people choose?

[Curt Siffert]

It looks like you're trying to set up a straw man, but I think the 
reasoning is pretty sound.  This very thing happened with Dean and 
Kerry before the nomination was locked up - people that would "ideally" 
prefer Dean to Kerry would vote for Kerry, because the herd was going 
with Kerry.

Curt

On May 18, 2004, at 8:19 PM, MIKE OSSIPOFF wrote:

> Though you're not at all clear about what you mean, you seem to be 
> implying that you mean that when people find out that C is favorite of 
> fewest, then people who prefer C to B will feel a need to follow the 
> herd, and the fact that C is favorite of fewest will make those people 
> begin to prefer B to C, because B has a higher Plurality score than C 
> does. Whatever reasons made those people prefer C to B, they'll 
> consider Plurality score to be a more important thing to judge the 
> candidates by,and so now they'll think that B must  be better than C. 
> Is that pretty much how your reasoning goes?