http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/06/08/a-two-party-system-where-you-had-to-vote-for-the-other-party-in-the-primary/ Question As Conversation Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:43:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/06/08/a-two-party-system-where-you-had-to-vote-for-the-other-party-in-the-primary/#comment-3251 grumblebee Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:12:02 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/06/08/a-two-party-system-where-you-had-to-vote-for-the-other-party-in-the-primary/#comment-3251 I'm not sure of the answer, but you should be able to model this and test it. It would be a cool <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma" rel="nofollow">Prisoner's Dilemma</a> sort of experiment. Maybe it's already been done. I’m not sure of the answer, but you should be able to model this and test it. It would be a cool Prisoner’s Dilemma sort of experiment. Maybe it’s already been done.

]]> http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/06/08/a-two-party-system-where-you-had-to-vote-for-the-other-party-in-the-primary/#comment-3237 Maxwelton Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:31:09 +0000 http://bigbigquestion.com/2008/06/08/a-two-party-system-where-you-had-to-vote-for-the-other-party-in-the-primary/#comment-3237 I think people would tend to choose the "best of the worst" option--who is the most palatable of the guys I don't like--<i>until</i> the first election where one party deliberately chooses the batshitinsane guy from the other party to guarantee their own win...after that, each subsequent election would be a race to the bottom. I think people would tend to choose the “best of the worst” option–who is the most palatable of the guys I don’t like–until the first election where one party deliberately chooses the batshitinsane guy from the other party to guarantee their own win…after that, each subsequent election would be a race to the bottom.

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