[EM] Re: DMC / 2-party domination

[Araucaria Araucana]

On 30 Aug 2005 at 08:51 UTC-0700, Kevin Venzke wrote:
> What do you disagree with?

That FBC-failure in a single general election held with Condorcet or
Condorcet/Approval hybrid will lead to 2 party dominance.

My point was that the dominance begins in the primary.

>
> If you disagree that DMC fails FBC, I don't have a failure example at
> the moment. But I would be shocked if DMC satisfies FBC, since DMC is a
> Condorcet method.
>
> When I read your second paragraph, you seem to be arguing that even methods
> which satisfy FBC will fail it if there are primaries. But that doesn't
> seem to be a disagreement with anything I said.
>
> When I referred to "the argument..." I was referring to Warren's argument.
> Perhaps that's where you disagreed.
>
> I don't know what "TTFN" means.

Ta-ta for now!

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