Hi! The underlying assumption of Warren's analysis is that there are two major candidates, and the voter tries to make one of these candidates win "at any cost".
I feel uneasy with this assumption, because - here, now I would not entrust any of the top two candidates, and the majority of the population is playing "eliminate one of the candidates at any cost". - I would prefer a voting system which makes cooperation beneficial, hence - I would like to be in a situation where any of the top two candidates would be largely OK for me, an I could decide between them based on my pet issues, world view or whatever What I am missing here is analysis of the impact of voting method on the strategy of voters and candidates. I hope a model could be set up which helps to understand this, but I have only faint ideas about how it could be done. And I have a question to Warren - or anyone who bothers to answer - about one of the aspects: How range voting and Condorcet (specifically Schulze) affects the chances of a cooperative and a confrontative candidate?
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