In our elections now, we have no assurance that Middle's voters will rank Favorite over Worst. That would be nice, sure, but is it a hope to use as a basis for choosing one method over another? In my examples, I usually assume that a middle candidate's voters don't vote between the 2 sides, or that if they do, it will cancel out. That seems reasonable. lt doesn't seem reasonable to assume that they'll lobsidedly rank my side over the opposite side. In fact, the Democrats & Republicans are closer to eachother than either is to the Greens or other progressives, in their goals & policies, and in their moral character. So the voter who likes the Democrat best is going to like the Green least, and the ] Republican 2nd. So because Runoff gives us a more generally helpful guarantee, I still like Runoff better than IRO, and feel that, except in the special cases covered by Mutual Majority & Clone Independence, Runoff is better than IRO. Mike
