[Peace-discuss] DFA results give nice illustration of instant runoff voting

[Robert Naiman]

The Democracy for America poll (posted earlier by Jan, I think)
resulted in a plurality for Kucinich:

Representative Dennis Kucinich 	31.97% 	49364 	
	Former Vice President Al Gore 	24.77% 	38242 	
	Former Senator John Edwards 	15.6% 	24078 	
	Senator Barack Obama 	13.86% 	21403 	
	Senator Hillary Clinton 	4.21% 	6504 	
	Governor Bill Richardson 	4.09% 	6309 	
	Other 	2.05% 	3171 	
	Senator Christopher Dodd 	1.56% 	2415 	
	Senator Joe Biden 	1.12% 	1723 	
	Former Senator Mike Gravel 	0.77% 	1182

The poll allowed one to rank 3 choices. The posted results allow one
to do a kind of instant runoff, by progressively eliminating the
lowest vote-getter.

If one does this, the final result puts Kucinich on top with 51% over
Edwards, with 49%.

Representative Dennis Kucinich 	50.96% 	66352 	
Former Senator John Edwards 	49.04% 	63852

http://www.democracyforamerica.com/pulsepoll/results?&r=1


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Robert Naiman
Just Foreign Policy
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