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Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by btrask on Thursday November 03, 2016 @05:50PM (#12868330)
I came up with a voting strategy that I call single issue tactical voting. The idea is that you pick what you think is the single most underrated issue, and announce you will either vote for your major candidate, or third party, depending on whether the major candidate agrees to support your issue. This works around Arrow's impossibility theorem and doesn't require any changes to the voting system. The goal is not to change the outcome of the election (if everyone is rational the outcome will be the same), but to influence the candidate's specific policies.

I was partly inspired by this application of game theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coWgbmlvRTU

I've been meaning to do a full writeup but hesitant in the current election climate... :)

Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by mcv on Friday November 04, 2016 @08:03AM (#12871906)
That's basically what Sanders did with Clinton. He supports her in exchange for her embracing many of his issues.
Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by ktRolster on Thursday November 03, 2016 @06:02PM (#12868400)
If you're going to do a writeup, you might as well just add your research to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-issue_politics
Re:Why Are US Presidential Elections So Close? by jbpetersen on Thursday November 03, 2016 @07:16PM (#12868968)
AFAIK Wikipedia only approves of third-hand or more distant accounts being used in its articles. Something has to be done, then talked about, then Wiki talks about the talking about it.