A voting system is basically an application of game theory. The prisoners’ dilemma, for example, has exactly one right answer and the rest are wrong. It’s not all subjective, there’s logic in it.
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To both cooperate, clearly. Unstable equilibriums can be sustained in repeated games, ie tit-for-tat.
Point being that the right moves have already been worked out for known games. There are known right moves and wrong moves, they’re not subjective.
Are you suggesting that our elections are tit-for-tat? They do seem that way 
But the right move for one isnt necessarily the right move for another.
This is more of a glass half full/glass half empty thing, where a person’s perspective informs their conclusion.
@scripta an example of your mythical, well-informed voters.
Some locals did not appear to know that Pace had passed away when they cast their votes for her.
She died in March, early voting in Indiana begins April 9
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From the article it sounds like they actually were well-informed, but you can’t expect them to visit the candidate’s house, can you?
Or an example of smart, strategic voters. There are procedures for replacing deceased elected officials. Often it can be better to elect the dead person then appoint a replacement. Especially if it’s too late to remove/replace that person on the ballot. There was a whole story arc about this on The West Wing one season.
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If they had a rank choice voting system, there would be no chance to correct the voters choice. There is only one election. They might have elected a Democrat in this heavily Republican district
Nobody is talking about a correction, and the type of a voting system used does not change the result – it would have been exactly the same with ranked choice. What glitch is talking about is a procedure for replacing deceased elected officials, which may be done by appointment. There’s no vote correction or another election. It’s not like the dead person would have been counted as if they lost.
Long time political commentator on the election, and how Biden seems to be in trouble, both in the polls and on the issues.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ar-BB1m7sj3
Six months to election day and things feel sort of fatalistic. There seems little to discover and nothing new to say about each of the candidates. It’s not going to dawn on you suddenly that Joe Biden is too old and infirm or Donald Trump too crazy. You’ve factored that in. You know what you think of both and have a sense of what compromises you’ll make within yourself to vote for either.
It’s going to be a campaign of damage control. Whoever has the last “WTF!” moment before votes are cast will lose, since far too many people are impulsive.
From the article
Mr. Ellis sees Mr. Biden struggling because “the two pillars” of his re-election effort are “tenuous at best.” The first is abortion. Mr. Ellis cites a CNN poll showing only 23% of voters say that a candidate must share their views on abortion. Abortion polled way down at 5% when respondents were asked the nation’s most urgent issues. The issue helps him, but not decisively.
As for the second pillar: “Is there anyone who believes that defending democracy can only be entrusted to an 82-year-old man of halting gait and declining ‘mental acuity,’ whom three-quarters of the American electorate view as incapable of serving effectively as president if re-elected?” That issue too can help him in November, but not decisively. “The Biden campaign needs a larger argument.”
The two pillars do not help Biden at all with the Latino and Black men that Trump is peeling away from the Democrats. They help him with the unmarried women and perhaps the suburban housewives who already vote Democrat
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https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/05/10/rookie-mayor-chicago-dnc-00157208
The DNC Is Preparing for the Worst in Chicago — Without the Help of the City’s Mayor
As Democrats plan their convention, they’ll have to address the elephant in the room: How to mitigate the threat of disruptions and work with a rookie mayor who unabashedly sympathizes with the protesters.
Thank you, It’s already been a long morning and I an afternoon full of vineyard visits. Your comment lightened my day immensely.
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Not disagreeing with your thoughts on him/her being elected, but why do you thing he/she was recalled?
Biden saying he’s up for debating trump twice before the election, trump agreeing. Guess we’ll see but it would be good to get that I think.
- BIDEN: RECEIVED, ACCEPTED CNN INVITATION FOR JUNE 27 DEBATE
The chatter on conservative talk radio is that the Democrats want to schedule the debates early so if Biden bombs they have time to replace him at the convention.
If the Democrats dump Biden, who will they choose? Newsom is not looking good with a huge deficit, and even the left-wing media acknowledging that people are fleeing California.
Californians are fleeing to a rich southern enclave. Locals aren’t happy.
Californians are moving to ‘New Texas’ in droves
Frisco and Plano, two wealthy enclaves in Collin County, have become hot spots for coastal Californians. In 2019, the median sale price of a single-family home in Frisco was just $400,000, but it’s since risen to about $700,000 as of March 2024, Redfin data shows — a 75% increase. Most people who recently searched for Frisco-area homes on the platform hail from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and New York.
No clue as I wasn’t following the story, but I’m guessing for doing a bad job. The recall had nothing to do with his (I was also confused by the name, but I think it’s a man) election.
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