The needle is only a subject of angst because it's had bad news for Democrats. It's often this good (or better) https://twitter.com/stevesingiser/status/1348067116453269504?s=20

Here's Florida, just a few months ago

Here's North Carolina, just a few months ago (and the hick up in the estimate around 11PM result was induced by an IRL irregularity in the NC results, not the needle).

Anyway, people on this website (aka democrats) completely forget about this stuff because it was bad news for Democrats.
It would be remembered entirely differnetly if the NC/FL polls said GOP favored, Dems won by 1-3 points, and needle called it from the start. Same with '16

The needle would be beloved on this website if its 2016 performance had been in reverse (if hypothetically, Trump led in the '16 polls, the needle started with Trump at 85% to win, and had Clinton at >95% to win by 1030PM while networks still talked like Trump favored)