In a message dated 9/9/03 4:57:01 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Again, there was no contest between B &C.
Yes, there was.
The contest took place in the individual voter rankings.
And 70 of the 105 voters thought B shouldn't win.
They merely preferred some other candidate to B...one simply cannot infer more then this...certainly not that B should not win. After all, 10 of those 70 ranked B second and no voter should ever expect that only their top choice will win.
Just because a voter preferred some other candidate to B, does not imply that B is not the best candidate or should not win especially since those 70 could not agree on who the top choice was. So, this statistic is simply irrelevant.
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