Thursday, March 27, 2008

Obama V Clinton Approaching A Prisoner's Dilemma Game?

Asks Freedom Democrats, a blog for libertarian Democrats: "New polling by Gallup possibly portends huge defections to McCain from the losing side of Obama v Clinton. For Clinton, it's an almost staggering 1/3 of her supporters that would move to McCain just to spite Obama. On the flip side, nearly 1/5 of Obama supporters would defect to McCain. In other words, the Gallup polling is suggesting Obama v Clinton is approaching a Prisoner's Dilemma Game, and truth be told, this is probably the real Clinton strategy...that is, force a cooperation strategy (enforced by the Hobbesian party) or both players lose. This explains the Clinton Dominant strategy of taking it to the gutter, extolling McCain, throwing out Clinton-Obama trial balloons. In this sense, any discussion about delegates, super-delegates is irrelevant. It's either a Clinton-Obama ticket or the Democrats lose to McCain. That seems to be the game the Clinton[s] are playing."

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