robert bristow-johnson > Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2011 7:00 PM > > On 9/22/11 12:40 PM, James Gilmour wrote: > > But suppose the votes had been (again ignoring irrelevant > preferences): > > 48 A>C > > 47 B>C > > 5 C > > "C" is still the Condorcet winner - no question about that. But I > > doubt whether anyone could successfully sell such a result to the > > electorate, at least, not here in the UK. > > even though there were 48 voters who preferred C over B, 47 that > preferred C over A, along with the 5 that preferred C over > both A and B. > > that does not appear to me to be such a bad result.
But you are missing the point. It is not how the Condorcet winner appears to you or to me - it is how that winner, with only 5% of the first preferences, is seen by ordinary electors and by hostile partisan politicians of Party A and Party B. I think I know how that result would be received in the UK (total rejection), and I would expect a similar reaction in the USA or Canada, judging by what I have read in their on-line newspapers. James Gilmour ---- Election-Methods mailing list - see http://electorama.com/em for list info