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 Most consider that if the center candidate is not too far behind in honest plurality, they should be the winner, as they would beat any other candidate in a head-to-head election, and otherwise the voting system is encouraging strategy (typically, a favorite betrayal) from one of the other two groups.
-(Note that "center" does not refer to an absolute political spectrum, but relative to the ideologies of the voters.  If the Libertarian Party holds an election, for instance, the winner should be near the center of Libertarian ideology.)
+(Note that "center" does not refer to an absolute political spectrum, but relative to the ideologies of the candidates.  If the Libertarian Party holds an election, for instance, the winner should be near the center of Libertarian ideology, but if there are other candidates to either side, the most-representative candidate cannot win.)
 The effect is not limited to 3 candidates: The more candidates there are crowding the center, the less likely they are to win.