Dear Kristofer, you wrote:
This is really a question of whether a candidate loved by 49% and considered kinda okay by 51% should win when compared to a candidate hated by the 49% and considered slightly better than the first by the 51%. A strict interpretation of the majority criterion says that the second candidate should win. The spirit of cardinal methods is that the first candidate should win, even though it's possible to make cardinal methods that pass strict Majority.
What does this "spirit" help when the result will still be the 2nd instead of the 1st candidate, because the method is majoritarian despite all cardinal flavour?
Again looking at my 55/45-example shows clearly that compromise candidates are not helped by voters' ability to express cardinal preferences but rather by methods which require also majority factions to cooperate with minorities in their own best interest, as is the case with D2MAC and FAWRB.
Would you bother to answer me on this? Yours, Jobst ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info
