Bart has again said that IRO deserves points because its drastic defensive strategy, that of abandoning your favorite to protect a compromise, helps the CW. Look, Bart, helping that candidate was the purpose of the strategy, and every method has ways of dependably electing the CW if voters have good enough knowledge of eachother's preferences. It's been shown that, with any method, if voters have complete dependable knowledge of eachother's preferences, the CW can't lose. So you needn't tout that as a special advanatage of IRO :-) The question, however, is what do you need to do in order to help that CW? Do you need to vote a less-liked alternative over your favorite? If the method is IRO, the answer is "Yes". If the method is Votes-Against or Approval, the answer is "No". *** It might not be possible for me to keep up with the volume of mail here, and so I want to emphasize that if I don't reply to something, that doesn't mean that I consider it to be irrefutable--it only means that there isn't sufficient time to reply to everything. *** Mike
