I have been looking for the easiest way to understand what is going to happen tonight as the polls begin to close. These are the resources I am marshalling to my defense:
- Rundown of what to look for tonight - Taegan Goddard's awesome schedule for tonight, when the polls close, what to look for each hour, and what it all will mean. This is by far the best thing I have found (better than Josh Marshall's, because it is shorter, by a lot), and I will be printing it out.
- Google's election results map - Hard to know if it will be helpful until the results start coming in, but I hope it will be a good place to go to bask in the Blue glow.
- All purpose drink - So many ways to enjoy your alcohol.
I am also lining up my favorite political blogs (warning, partisanship ahead!) so I can roll in the hay, as it were, and enjoy, sweet, sweet revenge. And, you know, all the healing and stuff the country needs, etc.
- FiveThirtyEight - final projection is Obama 349, McCain 189
- TPM Election Central - f) The Princeton Band!
- Political Wire - Short, succinct, and with a full text feed, too.
- Huff Post - Yeah, I'm so hip I call it Huff Post.
That Princeton Band thing is an inside joke I will never explain. Sorry.
I'd been following FiveThirtyEight for a few weeks and was feeling highly confident come election night. Still, I'm amazed by how spot-on they were. Truly incredible to compare the two electoral maps — their projection and the official results.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/