US Midterm Election watch along thread

[Andy_L]

I did some game theory calculations about how the additional senator affects M and S’s voting power

Messing around with Senate Coalition Game Theory

So I have an amateur interest in Game Theory (I’ve taken a course and read some books), and I like messing around with different examples. One that occurred to me is how much power particular coalitions (including coalitions of one) have in the Senate, based on how many people are in each coalition. This is obviously an oversimplification, but I’m going to assume that the votes we care about are won by the side with the most votes - with the subtlety that the one of the coalitions has a Vice P…