Stan Brown wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in sci.stat.edu, Robert J.
> MacG. Dawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Everything *else* about this process is mad enough. (Consider: if 45%
> >support the governor, 35% support the Terminator, and 20% support Mickey
> >Mouse, the Terminator wins. That's unles the governor's supporters were
> >smart enough to vote _en_masse_ to remove him and then make him his own
> >replacement, in which case he'd win.
>
> Unless things have changed very recently, by law he is not allowed
> to appear as a candidate on the recall ballot.
I might have known... In which case we have a system that is unstable,
as the Democrats would be crazy *not* to immediately campaign to recall
Arnie, putting the ball in their court again. This would be funny if it
weren't so serious.
>
> Indeed, it would be silly to let him appear on the ballot.[A] (Hear me
> out, please, before you react.) If a majority want to remove him,
> then obviously a majority doesn't want to retain him [B].
I agree with [B] but not [A]. In a typical three-way
race, there is *no* candidate that a majority wants to elect. Or, to put
it another way, for each candidate there usually exists a majority that
does not want that person elected.
But it does not follow that nobody should be elected in such a
situation.
-Robert Dawson
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