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Originally Posted by FireFly
My concern is the number of people who will vote for Barb or Ric because it's anyone but the other... If you all just vote for who you think SHOULD win, perhaps the results will be different, eh?
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I think in early polling and water cooler talk you should always be pumping your favourite candidate. But when it comes down to election day if your guy is more than 10% behind it doesn't really matter much. So I disagree that voting strategically hurts 3rd place candidates in terms of their potential to win.
Its the early polls that you need to get your candidate up in so that name brand type voters will add them to one of the options. I would really perfer a preferential ballet so that I wouldn't have to vote strategically or run off elections requiring 50%+1 of the votes but under the current system strategic voting is a necessary evil.