I dropped in on Professor Ordeshook today, and we talked for a couple of hours. Two comments I'll report here: 1. Though Ordeshook wrote in 1986 that pairwise methods are too compute-intensive to be practical for large elections, he no longer believes that to be the case. (That's the question I went there to ask him.) 2. With many candidates there will probably not be a beats-all winner. (I didn't ask for his assumptions.) I plan to talk with Prof. Morgan Kousser too. I think I'll have a more interesting time with Kousser, who has testified as an expert witness in reapportionment cases. I specifically want to ask him about two seemingly glaring logical errors made by the Supreme Court in the Reynolds v Sims (1964) decision. ---Steve (Steve Eppley [EMAIL PROTECTED])
