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Computational Complexity: The combinatorics of picking a Vice President

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Computational Complexity and other fun stuff in math and computer science from Lance Fortnow and Bill Gasarch Trump is pondering who to pick for his vice president. For a recent podcast about it go here. Spoiler alert: Doug B or Mario R or J.D. Vance. In 2008 I did a blog post titled I would bet on INTRADE that INTRADE will do badly picking VP nominations where I showed that about half the time the VP candidate is not on anyone's short list, and hence would do badly in betting markets. At the time INTRADE was synonymous with betting markets. I would not have bet that INTRADE would go out of business. What criteria does a prez nominee use when picking a vice president? How many combinations are there? 1) Someone who will help with a block of voters. Trump-Pence 2016: Mike Pence was thought to help Trump with Evangelicals and establishment Republicans. Biden-Harris-2020: Kamala Harris was thought to help Biden with women and African-Americans. JFK-LBJ-1960-LBJ was thought to help JFK

Computational Complexity: The combinatorics of picking a Vice President Sunday, July 07, 2024 The combinatorics of picking a Vice President Trump is pondering who to pick for his vice president. For a recent podcast about it go here . Spoiler alert: Doug B or Marco R or J.D. Vance. In 2008 I did a blog post titled I would bet on INTRADE that INTRADE will do badly picking VP nominations where I showed that about half the time the VP candidate is not on anyone's short list, and hence would do badly in betting markets. At the time INTRADE was synonymous with betting markets. I would not have bet

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