Not to be pedantic with a good journalist, but it's so important for popular discourse to recognize RCV or other alternate systems mattered a lot in the electoral positioning and strategy of races that didn't visibly switch results from a hypothetical SMDP
Stephen Meserve
Since RCV started, there haven't been many high-profile examples of contests where it actually mattered: where the final winner trailed among the first-round preferences.
(Think Eric Adams, Mamdani, all the Peltola & Murkowski races.)
Until suddenly it happened TWICE in Maine last night.
