As you may have heard, from the ALL CAPS HEADLINES on your television, from questionable memes your estranged uncle posts on Facebook, and from the screams of agony on every street corner—it's an election year!

And there's something about this one that's different from the rest...we can't quite place our tiny fingers on it, but it's...excruciating. It hurts. It might be shaving years off our lives, or maybe that's from all the booze it's taking to get through this. Speaking of numbing the pain with alcohol, we were inspired by this election to make a recipe, the one thing we take joy from in this life. Please don't take that away from us, future president, whoever you may be.

We've named it "The Swing State," because it holds an undeserved amount of power and influence. It makes all of the other cocktails in your life pretty much meaningless, like why did you even make those? They don't really count. This counts. Oh, and also: It might just be the strongest cocktail we've ever created.

In senior food editor Rick Martinez's bipartisan recipe, there's overproof bourbon (Old Grand Dad 114 feels patriotic, go with that), American-made sweet vermouth like Atsby Armadillo Cake, then we've got Yuengling beer from Pennsylvania Update: [Or ...any other beer you like], a nice swing state on the Eastern coast. Plus plenty of orange juice in honor of the great state of Florida, bitters because feelings, and cracked ice to get some aggression out. Like the day you remember you can always move to Canada, it's surprisingly refreshing! Garnish with as many American flag toothpicks as possible and drink as fast as possible. God bless America.