James--
You asked why I'd say that the supporters of some candidate A can't steal the election for A by offensive order-reversal unless A is the sincere Plurality winner. Good question. I said it because I was only considering examples in which the CW, B, is between A and C, in the following sense:
Everyone who prefers A to C prevers B to C. Everyone who prefers C to A prefers B to A.
If a CW is between the other 2 c andidates in a 3-candidate example, I call that CW a "middle CW".
So tha;t's why I made the claim that I made: I was only considering examples in which the CW is a middle CW.
My guarantee about A needeing to be sincere Plurality winner, in order for the offensive order-reversal to succeed holds then. I don't know if it holds in every spatial example. If so, that would be a good thing to find out. Does anyone know?
In your example, A is the CW, and B is the candidate of the offensive order-reversers. In my examples, and most of those on EM, it's the opposite. Typically B is the CW, and A is the candidate of the offensive strategists.
Mike Ossipoff
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