[EM] More non-altruistic attacks on IRV usage.

[David L Wetzell]

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>> The two major-party equilibrium would be centered around the de facto
>> center.
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> But positioning yourself around the de facto center is dangerous in IRV.
> You might get center-squeezed unless either you or your voters start using
> strategic lesser-evil logic - the same sort of logic that IRV was supposed
> to free you from by "being impervious to spoilers".
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> dlw: the cost of campaigning in "less local" elections is high enuf that
it's hard for a major party to get center-squeezed.  And if such did
happen, they could reposition to prevent it.  In the US, traditionally our
parties have been more ideologically flexible than most EU parties.  I
don't think this is necessarily bad, it's just been trending bad for the
last 40 years for a number of bbefore specified reasons.

dlw
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