Nee­dle, nee­dle, on the wall, who’s the fairest can­di­date of all?Turns out, it total­ly depends on which nee­dle you’re ask­ing. The New York Times rolled out its infa­mous elec­tion nee­dle again on Tues­day night, with a com­pet­ing nee­dle avail­able for elec­tion watch­ers on Fox News. But depend­ing on which you were look­ing at, you’d have a very dif­fer­ent impres­sion of how the night is going for your pre­ferred can­di­date:> Either NYT or Fox News is get­ting this very wrong right now pic.twitter.com/Rj6rSwZQf9> > — Will Ore­mus (@WillOremus) Novem­ber 4, 2020Let’s, uhh, take a clos­er look at that:> A tale of two nee­dles in North Car­oli­na.> > NYT’s nee­dle has Trump at 88% to win NC. > Fox’s nee­dle has Biden at 92% to win NC. pic.twitter.com/Hj7O9jWOvd> > — Mark Helenows­ki (@markhelenowski) Novem­ber 4, 2020Nate Cohn, of The New York Times, offered some insight into why his publication’s nee­dles specif­i­cal­ly might be skew­ing so much toward Trump. “[A]ll three states are in the same mod­el,” he explained, ask­ing rhetor­i­cal­ly if the results in Flori­da might “bias us a bit in [North Car­oli­na and Geor­gia], espe­cial­ly in Lati­no areas? I think that’s at least pos­si­ble in [Geor­gia] burbs.“Alexander Panet­ta of The Wash­ing­ton Post added his two cents, too: “Based on my com­par­i­son of coun­ties [in North Car­oli­na] in 2016 to coun­ties in 2020 the Fox one makes more sense,” he tweet­ed. “Except — it means SFA unless you know A) what the mail votes vs. in per­son are and B) how the votes by dif­fer­ent meth­ods break down.“Maybe for 2024, we can get addi­tion­al nee­dles that project the odds of the nee­dles being right?More sto­ries from theweek.com COVID-19 keeps prov­ing every­one wrong Is this the year the New South turns blue? Democ­rats’ first priority