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#' Description
#' This file runs a live election-night forecast based on The Economist's pre-election forecasting model
#' available at projects.economist.com/us-2020-forecast/president.
#' It is resampling model based on https://pkremp.github.io/update_prob.html.
#' This script does not input any real election results! You will have to enter your picks/constraints manually (scroll to the bottom of the script).
#' 
#' Licence
#' This software is published by *[The Economist](https://www.economist.com)* under the [MIT licence](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT). The data generated by *The Economist* are available under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
#' The licences include only the data and the software authored by *The Economist*, and do not cover any *Economist* content or third-party data or content made available using the software. More information about licensing, syndication and the copyright of *Economist* content can be fou

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import cartopy.crs as ccrs
import cartopy.io.shapereader as shpreader
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from shapely.ops import polylabel

shapename="admin_1_states_provinces_lakes_shp"
states_shp = shpreader.natural_earth(
    resolution='50m', 
    category='cultural', 
    name=shapename