Condorcet Match-up Number One: Dean vs Kerry (Dean, Kerry, Edwards)

Pretend these are the only people left running.

Who would you vote for if the race were between Dean and Kerry only?

Vote in this poll and in Match-ups Number Two and Three (which are coming up in a second).

Ok, Election Survivor didn't work out well. I was curious to see where support shifted once the least favorite candidates were taken out, but there were huge anomalies from round to round suggesting that people were voting strategically to get rid of the strong candidates (a la weakest link) so to protect their candidate. Leaving the implications of that behind, I think I'm going to have to try a differnt method for understanding who the stong candidate is in a multi-candidate field.

This time, I'm going to try the Condorcet Voting Method.

I'm going to assume Dean, Kerry and Edwards are the final three (and maybe we'll do this again later, presuming a different group of three or four). I'm going to break this into The three head to head match-ups, Dean v Kerry, Dean v Edwards, Edwards v Kerry, and we'll see who the condorcet winner is.

...I voted Dean, BTW.

Lieberman and Graham support doesn't go to Kerry.

If the goal is to beat Bush, it is possible that to some, Kerry cannot beat Bush based not on his policies, but on his personality/ability to campaign/etc.

I haven't voted yet, because I'm not sure. I can envision scenarios where both eke out a win against Bush, but I hope it doesn't come down to the two of them. I'm dealing with major Yalie fatigue.

Before leaving them behind, would you share with us what the results were? Who was the last candidate standing?

It's still here somewhere. Dean and Kerry were tied for getting the boot last I checked.