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On the EM list there is much lengthy discussion of voting strategy, strategic voting and the like. To gloss over lots of details it is generally presumed that voters behave rationally and vote strategically to maximise the utility of their outcome in an election.<BR>
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Mike Ossipoff wrote:<BR>
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>Don't vote for Kucinich in the primary. Vote for Sharpton. Then vote for <BR>
>Nader in the general election (or maybe Camejo if he wins the Greens' <BR>
>nomination)<BR>
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I seem to remember that in the 2000 Presidential election the effect of voting for Nader was to allow the (probable) Condorcet winner Gore to be defeated by Bush.<BR>
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Mike, it seems very strange that somebody who writes as much on voting strategy as you do should come up with something like this when faced with the question of how to vote in a real election.<BR>
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David Gamble<BR>
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