There is no big picture. There are no rounds (it should be called automatic runoff). There are no permutations. This is absolutely nothing like chess. I don’t know why you mentioned databases, which are also nothing like chess.
I updated my reply above with links to youtube videos.
I will put it on my very long list of things to do.
I disagree. Relational databases require seeing the whole board and all effects that one small change makes.
This is fundamentally incorrect. The pool is the list of candidates you start with. Once you pick your top 7 choices, for your 8th selection it will be from the same pool of options you started with (sans the first 7 you already chose).
When counting votes, your 8th selection is only relevant if your top 7 choices are eliminated as having the lowest vote total. And if that happens, the pool of options to choose from in that 8th round will be the same as was available when you selected your 8th choice when filling out your ballot. In each round, your vote always goes to your highest ranked option that hasnt been eliminated, regardless of which other options also remain - you’ve already decided those other options are worse by virtue of ranking someone else higher.
Basically, each “round” (which, again, is a misleading term), the pool of options will be a subset of the original list. And of that remaining pool, whichever candidate you ranked highest when filling out your ballot will get your vote.
What you are arguing is that If Stalin, Lenin, and Biden were the pool, you’d choose Biden. But if the remaining pool was Stalin, Biden, and Trump, you’d chose Stalin. Which makes no sense, because you’re going to either rank Biden over Stalin, or Stalin over Biden regardless of the other remaining options.
You seem to be thinking that “round 5” means your vote is cast for your 5th ranked choice. That is only true if your 1, 2, 3, and 4 choices were eliminated in the first 4 rounds. Otheriwse, your 1st choice will remain your choice in round 2, 5, 11, even round 20, if that person never receives the lowest vote total in any round.
There’s no need to predict anything. If you prefer the male trans candidate as your top choice, they’re your top choice regardless of which of the other options have been eliminated. If you rank Cartero as your 8th preference, then Cartero will get your vote once your 1st-7th ranked choices have been eliminated, regardless of which other options also remain.
There’s nothing relational about it. Out of 27 options, you pick the Muslim as your favorite. Once narrowed down to 10 options, the Muslim is still going to be your favorite, regardless of who the other 9 remaining options are.
If you rank the Mandalorian as your 7th favorite out of 27 options, you will have the Mandalorian ranked ahead of 20 of the other options. And in later rounds, it doesnt matter how many of those 20 other options remain, you will still have the Mandalorian ranked ahead of whatever combination of those 20 still remain.
Great choices for Trump’s energy policy
Burgum for Energy czar
Chris Wright for head of department of energy
RFK
If DJT admin truly becomes libertarian they will have my midterm vote!
in the standard, and now largely ineffective, democratic playbook, every one of trumps primary appointees has been accused of sexual misconduct. Gaetz is especially targeted, despite the fact that he was investigated extensively by the Biden DOJ and all charges were dropped. Nevermind that, he still was an alleged… playboy(?) back before he got married?
17 y.o allegedly. But it is FL so…
In some states he would have to report to his neighbors … I am the new attorney general.
Why not release the report to squash rumors/online hacks
and he’s out Should have pulled out sooner, but he’s not good at that 
Now he’s no longer a congressman either.
Sure he’ll get a cushy role regardless.
He obviously knew what was in that report. And that a copy of the findings was going to be made public by hook or by hack.
Crime might pay in the end.
DJT always needs a clean up crew/fixers
and it looks like Gaetz could return to congress after all. Maybe run for election. I’m sure he’ll get a resounding victory in his GOP district. Like they said not all dems are horse thieves, but all horse thieves are Dems
That’s a close race - MN state congress in the balance when 21 ballots were “thrown away by accident” and were larger than the margin of Democratic victory.
Immigration yes, drugs no.
Correct. Drugs are a major “export,” a poor country with massive demand here. They’ve adopted hugs, not bullets approach, and cartels rule there in some states
We need to control demand. It has worked with overdose deaths dropping lately.
Also, DJT is fibbing again. She never said she would stop the migration flow. She’s weak and thinks they need a comprehensive strategy=$$$. I do think the new border czar means business. Let’s see how brute force works.
She almost got to do this to our country’s finances
I’m thankful for Kamala Harris’s campaign. First of all, they raised $1.5 billion dollars and spent it in 15 weeks. It sounds wasteful. But in fact, taking $1.5 billion dollars from some of America’s silliest people and then giving it away to hardworking ones is what I call distributive justice.
