The game that lets you smash Paul Ryan in the face is blessedly here

In the past few weeks, we’ve told you about some pretty heady political games: the Redistricting Game and Randy Chase’s forgotten but classic Doonesbury Election Simulator. But maybe you want a political game that is a little simpler, one that features less thinking and more smashing. Well, Bam Bam, everyone gets a vote, not just the thinkers. There are no philosopher kings and Greece is in shambles. So for you, and for us when we aren’t wine-drunk at symposia, there is Whack a Candidate: Election’ 12, the game that lets you play whack a mole with the faces of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Mitt Romney, and he-who-shall-not-be, oh wait, Paul Ryan. YES