I don't understand why Nate doesn't just start SixFortyNine and does it all over again. In the end, what ABC owns is just a name - which was always kinda stupid and even hard to spell - and a bunch of obsolete content.
i was a casual reader of 538 back in the day. his substack feels pretty similar, if smaller in scope.
Maps for elections generally don't come out till a few months beforehand because there isn't enough polling data to make a meaningful prediction.