538 Election predictions to TSV

election_predictions.py

from urllib import request
import json

all_votes = json.load(request.urlopen("https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/states_electoral_votes.json"))
predictions = json.load(request.urlopen("https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/state_summary.json"))[0]["states"]
predictions.sort(key=lambda p: p["state"])
for prediction in predictions:
    state = prediction["state"]
    vote_count = next(v["votes"] for v in all_votes if v["state"] == state)
    # not an endorsement!
    trump_prob = next(c["winprob"]/100 for c in prediction["candidates"] if c["candidate"] == "Trump")
    print(f"{state}\t{vote_count}\t{trump_prob}")