![]() ![]() Don’t look at the needle - just ignore her! She loves attention. Regardless of the success of the needle’s behavioral reforms, I can think of numerous less stressful things a voter could do to pass the time while waiting for results (which, again, will likely take a while). These states are also possible bellwethers for the national result, sort of - if they are won by Joe Biden, he has likely won the entire election if Trump wins them, both candidates have a “realistic path,” according to the Times. That’s because those states break down their votes by voter method, enabling them to report quickly and efficiently. Though there’s no national needle, we will have three smaller-scale ones tracking results from Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina. It follows that this cruel mistress should not be used to chart the results of an already heated election, during a pandemic, in which the labyrinthine election laws of multiple states means that some counts will likely not be completed for days. ![]() “The huge changes in voting by method + the limits of available data just make too risky to do responsibly.”Ĭohn seems to be responding to feedback that the dreaded needle made the incredibly stressful experience of watching the 2016 election even worse. “There will be no national needle,” he wrote. Polling guru Nate Cohn tweeted out the news on Monday evening with a caveat: The needle, which so traumatically tracked overwhelming odds in Hillary Clinton’s favor at the beginning of November 8, 2016, before switching sharply to Donald Trump, is back with a slight tweak. Phobia experts quoted in a New York Times article on the topic suggest people with needle phobia try desensitizing themselves by looking at pictures of, or even holding, needles. Yes, the New York Times election-forecast needle has returned. ![]() Did you just hear a sudden piercing scream? A horrifying gleeful cackle somewhere in the distance as the sun began to set (the sun sets at like 4 p.m. ![]()
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