At Daily Kos Elections, we spend every day of the election cycle following every important race across the country. Now that Election Day is finally upon us, here are a bunch of excellent resources that we've put together to help make sense of all the returns as they come in:
- Our hour-by-hour guide to the most important contests in every state, organized by the times poll close, and our key race tracker, which we'll keep updated in real-time as races are called tonight.
- Our awesome color-coded poll closing time map (reproduced above). Note that all times are Eastern.
- Our "county benchmarks," which tell you how well each Democratic candidate has to do in his or her state's largest counties in order to win 50 percent of the vote statewide. (We have benchmarks for more than a dozen critical states.)
- Our nationwide guides to all the most critical down-ballot races:
- Our race ratings for Senate, gubernatorial, and House races, as well as our colleague Carolyn Fiddler's ratings for state legislatures (more on those here).
- The Daily Kos Election Outlook, our poll-driven model that analyzes each party's chances in all the Senate and gubernatorial races, and Steve Singiser's invaluable poll database, so that you can see what powered these projections—and evaluate who called the elections correctly.
If you know of any other good election night resources, please link them in comments. And be sure to check back in when polls close at 6 PM ET for the Daily Kos liveblog!