( CNN ) -- With national polls and polls in many of the battleground states essentially tied just days before November 6 , the winner of the presidential election is anybody 's guess . So , by the numbers , here 's a look at some offbeat predictors of presidential elections : . 62.1 - Percent of sales of the President Obama `` Chia '' planter , as of October 23 . 37.1 - Percent of sales of the Mitt Romney `` Chia '' planter as of October 23 . 80 ( 4 out of 5 ) - Percent of Family Circle magazine Presidential Cookie Bake-off winners who became first lady after her husband won the election . ( Cindy McCain was the one winner who was a loser . ) 54 - Percent of the recipes in the Family Circle Presidential Cookie Bake-offs that include chocolate chips . 16 - Elections in a row , from 1936 until 1996 , where the incumbent party stayed in office if the Washington Redskins football team won at home in their last game before the election . ( The so-called Redskins Rule did n't apply in 2000 , 2004 and 2008 . ) 60 - Percent of sales received at the Spirit Halloween seasonal store for the President Barack Obama mask . 40 - Percent of sales received at the Spirit Halloween season store for the Mitt Romney mask . 8 out of 9 - Correct predictions of the winner by the General Cinema movie theaters ' `` StrawVote '' polls from 1968 until 2000 . The last year of the poll , moviegoers chose Al Gore to win . 16 - States , mostly in the upper Midwest and in the South , which are unable to participate in the `` 7-11 '' convenience store `` 7-Election '' coffee cup poll , because there are no `` 7-11 '' stores there . Do the math : The CNN Electoral Map . 59 - Percent of votes President Barack Obama had received in the 7-11 contest as of October 31 . 51 - Percent of voters in the Scholastic Student Vote who voted for President Barack Obama . Students choose Obama in Scholastic mock election . 45 - Percent of voters in the Scholastic Student Vote who voted for former Gov . Mitt Romney . 10 - Times since 1908 a National League baseball team has won the World Series during an election year . 67 - Percent chance Democrat Barack Obama will win the election since a National League team won the World Series , according to Major League Baseball . 33 - Percent chance Republican Mitt Romney will win the election , according to the MLB . 4 - Games played in the World Series in 2012 . The National League 's San Francisco Giants won this year , sweeping the American League Detroit Tigers . 1 - Number of times famous Pennsylvania groundhog Punxsutawney Phil did n't see his shadow during an election year . Romney tries to put Pennsylvania in play . 1 - Number of times Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow on Groundhog Day in 2012 . 9 - Nuts eaten out of his Mitt Romney bowl by Gnocchi , the election-predicting pet squirrel from South Carolina , versus five eaten from his Obama bowl . Gnocchi correctly picked Obama to win in 2008 .
60 - Percent of sales received at a Halloween store for the President Barack Obama mask . 40 - Percent of sales received at the same store for the Mitt Romney mask . 59 - Percent of votes Obama has received in the 7-11 contest as of October 31 . The poll was conducted by telephone from September 30 to November 1 among 1,501 adults nationwide, including 874 registered voters. - Nuts eaten out of Romney bowl by an election-predicting squirrel vs. 5 from Obama bowl .