On 11/26/11 4:08 PM, David L Wetzell wrote:
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".
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.
the counterexample, again, is Burlington Vermont. Dems haven't sat in
the mayor's chair for decades.
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