David L Wetzell wrote:


On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Jameson Quinn <jameson.qu...@gmail.com <mailto:jameson.qu...@gmail.com>> wrote:

    How? By people returning to lesser-evil voting, but possibly between
    progressives and democrats? That's not a solution in my book.


The two major-party equilibrium would be centered around the de facto center.

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".

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