Under a Condorcet style election, how would you rank the following candidates? Feel free to leave some out,
have ties (!!!), or just put down your first choice.
Biden
Warren
Sanders
Buttigieg
Harris
Yang
O'Rourke
Booker
Klobuchar
Castro
Gabbard
Steyer
Bennet
Delaney
Ryan
Williamson
Bullock
Sestak
Messam
With 19 candidates still in the race, it is still incredibly unlikely that any one of them ends up with majority support. What might some type of ranked system do to the outcome?
About five months ago, I put out
a post asking people to put down their votes in a approval method election. I have been wanting to test the election under some additional types of balloting methods for some time, but it has been difficult to explain them in a succinct manor. However,
a recent FairVote/YouGov poll has made that issue a lot easier. With their interactive, you can take the poll they have done and use their numbers to see how the election would change by removing certain candidates. The Condorcet method, as simply as possible, takes your ranked ballot and essentially matches every candidate against each-other. To simulate this through the poll above, simply remove all but two candidates and mark down who won. Since Warren beat every candidate in a one-on-one race, she is the Condorcet winner!
I will be locking the thread right before the
October debates so I can tally the numbers, but feel free to come back and edit your posts until then.
Link to the YouGov poll for those who can't interact with hyperlinked text:
https://www.fairvote.org/interact_with_the_data
