Comment on The latest Coalition scare campaign about Labor may scare itself more than voters
dillekant@slrpnk.net 1 week agoThank you for the awesome analysis. To try and put what you said intuitively, I guess the “strategic” voting is to compromise as early as possible with a group whose “second choice” would be your last choice (and that is also a very popular first choice but only just popular enough to win). Does that sound correct?
So in your political compass, instead of picking the closest option to you on the compass with a Greens/Labor vote, you would pick a spot closer to the overall vibes of the electorate with a Teal vote to solidify that choice against an even further to the right choice which would win by a narrow margin?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
Potentially, yes, especially in a seat like the Teals’ ones. But as I said, it can also hurt you if you do it at the wrong time.
A great example of that would be the 3 seats in Brisbane that went Greens last election, which were extremely close races between Greens and Labor, and any Greens or Labor voter would have been wrong to try to compromise early to avoid the LNP winning.