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class=353412023-30092004>When extended this far everything I get related to
ranking sports teams is a mathematically-oriented topic involving
voting.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=353412023-30092004>The math is interesting, but if you think about it,
what's happening is that the discussion is being changed from "who would you
vote for" to "who do you bet everyone else will vote for?" </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=353412023-30092004>I think this is just as bad for democracy as the change
from "how can deliver energy" to "how can we make make money off of not
delivering energy" was for Enron as an ongoing business
concern.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=353412023-30092004>It is a very dangerous thing to equate a "model of
reality" with reality. A very bad thing that is happening in the political arena
is that the model is being imposed upon the reality and the reality is moving
towards the model just because the model is getting all the
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<DIV>(I realize that this isn't directly related to election methods, but it
is a mathematically-oriented topic involving voting, so I hope people will
forgive me for posting this.)</DIV>
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<DIV>Alex Small<SPAN class=353412023-30092004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
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