The meaning of The Green Book win

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31. Re: ranked choice voting: I am perfectly fine with that outcome; but apparently not good at math.

If the ultimate winner was no one's favorite, that means they were a consensus compromise candidate. I'm very much okay with that.

I can't remember the last candidate that I ever loved with all my heart and couldn't find a single thing wrong with. EVERY candidate is a "compromise" choice to some extent: we have to prioritize which issues and factors mean the most before settling on our "first choice" candidate. In a world of rational voters (yeah, I know), everyone is making those decisions and the scenario you describe would be a case where there was a lot of difference of opinion on the priority issues. But the consensus candidate by ranked choice would be the one where there was the most overlap on issues/factors overall. I'm okay with that. (Of course, the issues most important to me have NEVER been most important to the Democratic party, and lately even so-called progressives ... but the republicans are much worse on those issues, and evil on top of it. So here I am. )

All that said - how the hell could "the pizza that nobody wanted most" end up winning? It would be eliminated in the first round. Do you mean that the fewest people wanted most?

Still don't see a problem.

It would be A HELLUVA LOT BETTER than someone "winning" an 8 candidate field with 18% of the vote.