You may or may not be aware, but there is a presidential election happening in four days. In addition to the election of our next president, there are a number of Senate and House of Representative elections on the ballot taking place. There are also races for various state legislators, judges, constitutional amendments, and other ballot measures.

This is a pretty big election.

A number of us want to follow the results on election night of any number of these races, but we will likely be overwhelmed by the deluge of information thrown at us in a very short amount of time. It may become difficult to keep track of it all.

Here are some online resources I've found to help with this:

538's Forecast Models

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Nate Silver's organization, FiveThirtyEight, has put out a forecast model ever since the 2008 democratic primaries. It is quite good and gives you an idea of an aggregation of all the current national and state polls. The main page focuses on the presidential election but there is also a model for the Senate and a model for the House.

ObserableHQ's Electoral College Decision Tree

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As the results come in, you can toggle which key states one candidate or the other has won, and thus eliminate paths to electoral college victory that remain possible.

What's On The Ballot?

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Daniel Neichanian (@taniel) has created a site that gives you a general election cheat sheet of a majority of the notable federal, state, and local elections. There are notes here and there that explain why an election or ballot measure may be important. He has also created a PDF version for folks who may want to print this out and mark it up on election night.