Strange numeric coincidences that should occur only rarely

[sbright33]

You guys are good at math please give me some ideas.

Election results today

Can someone please help me with specific numbers or ideas why the election may not be called today? Has a presidential election ever been called on a weekend? During a popular football game? Do any of these issues matter at all? Clearly it can’t be JUST math. PA in particular. The 0.5 comes into play to avoid a recount. Seems that the remaining votes must be less than what is needed to go back below 0.5 with some finite margin of certainty? Opinion, math, facts, history please.

I promise not to look for strange patterns in the answer…