New York Times Election Needle 2024. The times publishes its own estimates for each candidate’s share of the final vote and the number of remaining votes, based on historic turnout data and reporting from results. A november surprise in the arcane art of decision desk election calls arrived tuesday morning as the new york times wrote that the needle is back — but only if the tech support behind.

On the night of the 2016 us presidential election the new york times launched the needle, a data visualisation vaguely reminiscent of a car’s speedometer. But harris’s failure to match biden’s 2020 performance was just as consequential.