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The two major-party equilibrium would be centered around the de facto center. <br>
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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".<br>
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</blockquote></div>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.<div>
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