Obamacare written to deceive the public.

[Heywood]

Alternative vote sounds nice in theory, but I have a feeling the practical result would be no change. There's no spoiler effect in the case of a large percentage of one candidate's votes being siphoned off by a popular sub-party, but only if the independents draw largely from only one candidate. I think in practice this effect would have negligible impact on the actual outcome of races and simply increase the complexity of the process.

If the alternative vote were used, I think Clinton loses in 1992 as the Perot voters break toward Bush. I think Bush loses in 2000 as the Nader voters break toward Gore.

The world would be a significantly different place today if an Alternative vote system was used in America. Of course we really don't know and can't know but I find it to be intuitively true.