How big of a lead does Adams (or whoever) need to survive the instant-runoff process? @fairvote has tracked 15 come-from-behind RCV winners since 2004, and most were within a few points of the 1st-round leader.pic.twitter.com/hCdDDY67Fo
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But ultimately, @chesaboudin split the moderate vote. Tung, Loftus, and Deutch were all moderate candidates and Chesa was the radical outlier. The fact that he won shows that RCV did not enable a maximally democratic outcome, despite its raison d’etre 3/3
A newspaper endorsed Chesa, so the people who read it ranked him #2? Doesn't sound like they were confused by RCV, sounds like they paid attention to the endorsement. Nothing you've said provides any indication whatsoever that the outcome wasn't maximally democratic.
There are cases where RCV fails to deliver a maximally democratic outcome--in the 2009 Burlington, VT election a more centrist candidate would've won 1-on-1 against either of the other top two, but he had the third most 1st-place votes and got eliminated.
Your claim that a large fraction of Asian Americans were somehow uniquely "confused" by RCV is baseless and offensive. Regardless of what you think of him, the truth is that Boudin made dedicated outreach to the AAPI community to win those votes fair and square.
I didn’t say he didn’t win fair and square. He did. And this isn’t the only example where RCV produced counter-intuitive results. Nothing wrong with analyzing that. 1/
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