For the geek in all of you

In case election punditry (pundirty?) is not enough to your satiate desires both subtle and gross, here are some toys to play with while taking breaks from phone and text banking. But they’re not for the timid.

Cook Political’s uber-geek Dave Wasserman rolled some out this week on Twitter. Cook’s tool requires more sophisticated ability to game out demographics.

Bad #ElectionTwitter pickup line: "Hey there, want to slide into my…DeMographic Swingometer?"

The wait is over. Introducing @CookPolitical's newest, most addictive tool: https://t.co/RAud6tHKVu pic.twitter.com/wVgvM9mEBR

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 24, 2020

And no, “swingometer” is not a reference to Jerry Falwell, Jr, Wasserman adds.

NBC News offers Swing the Election:

Like the @NBCNews interactive, the @CookPolitical tool allows you to build & share your own maps. It also has some extras for election *super-nerds:*

1) Real-time raw popular vote tally
2) Real-time red/blue state shading
3) Dynamic table w/ state-level demographic breakdowns

— Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) September 24, 2020

Someone in the comments offered another interactive fidget spinner from Polivision that seems easy enough to use.

And of course, there is the standby interactive map from 270 to Win:

Or you can just use Google’s.

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