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

[robert bristow-johnson]

On 11/26/11 4:08 PM, David L Wetzell wrote:
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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.

the counterexample, again, is Burlington Vermont.  Dems haven't sat in 
the mayor's chair for decades.

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