Preferential voting: too much for lj?

So I'm not that fussed about this lj election, but it seems to be becoming increasingly polarised between two candidates (leggomymalfoy and jameth) That's not neccesarily a bad thing, but I get the feeling people are going "Oh no! Candidate A is catching up, better change my first preference to Candidate B, since they're not my top choice but are stil better than Candidate A".

Which is unneccesary (I think :)): neither of them have anywhere near 50% of the vote, so a vote for them second (or even third, probably) is just as good as a vote for them first, and that way you still get to put whoever you really want to win in first position. (If that is leggomymalfoy or jameth then fine)

I'm inclined to put this down to most lj-ers not being from countries which use preferential voting. Unless I'm just missing something, which isn't that implausible. Anyway, I don't care that much, but I'm a fan of democracy and this is unneccesarily undemocratic.

*thinks about it some more*
*confuses self*

Patchily clairvoyant (yet dumb)

So in a shocking development noone could have predicted, it turns out that raising the tax on premixed drinks just encouraged people to buy spirits and mix their own.

Ha!

EDIT: Yes, ok, I'm an idiot (see the comments). You know when I said I was too tired, grumpy, and stupid to post? Well, the first two have gotten better...