discussing the election itself is on topic.
Great 
I've been wondering for a while why they keep giving intermediate results while counting. Why's that?It's as if they're counting how many more votes they have left to count, and then for each newly counted vote publish the new totals. Why don't they just wait until they're done counting, and publish only the final total?
It now seems like they're asking for attention for days, while they have no final data to publish.
Transparency I guess. Partial results in most cases (~45 states out of 50) are good enough to tell the outcome early in the process.
There is nothing inherently wrong with partial results except that the Twitter generation has grown accustomed to instant gratification to the point that they can't wait a few days for results on something that doesn't even take effect until mid-January. And people can't math or are just plain stupid so they think there must be cheating if it doesn't go the way they want.