Retrieve data from Google's election tracker

electiontrack.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import simplejson, urllib2

DATA_URL = "http://election2008.s3.amazonaws.com/votes/us-pres.json"

data = simplejson.loads(urllib2.urlopen(DATA_URL).read())

for candidate in data["totals"]["races"]["President"][""]["votes"]:
  name = data["candidates"][candidate["id"]].split("|")[1]
  print "%s: %s - %s" % (
    name, candidate["votes"], candidate["electoral"])