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Originally Posted by GGG
So i can agree with the chair bashing on the Morton comment but what is peoples love with the prefferential ballot which assures that the least contraversial candidate wins.
Look at when Stelmach won. He only won because the Dinning supporters and Morton supporters hated eachother. Mar lost because of the ABM vote. Dion won the liberal leadership because of animosity between Ray and Ignatief camps.
Any good leader takes stands on issues, taking stands on issues divides people, the key to winning a preferential ballot is to have name recognition going in and be non offensive.
Nenshi would have likely lost a preferential ballot to McIvor and Higgins. They split the old, conservative vote allow Nenshi to win with the young vote.
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I like forms of democracy where you actually need a majority to win. I love that the parties use preferential balloting, because that way I can point to that, when they oppose democratic reform, and ask why first past the post is a good enough system for the general election when it isn't good enough for their own leadership elections. Why does one need a majority to become the leader of a party, but not to become the leader of the country?