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Short function to monitor voting results in battleground states
function vote {
curl --silent https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.csv | \
awk -v red="$(tput setaf 1)" \
-v blue="$(tput setaf 4)" \
-v reset="$(tput sgr0)" \
-F "," '
NR==1 { next }
matches[$1] == 1 { next }
{
matches[$1]=1
state=$1
leader=$3
margin=$7
remaining=$8
percentage=margin/remaining*100
color = leader == "Biden" ? blue : red
printf "%s %s%s%s +%d (%.2f%% of remaining)\n", state, color, leader, reset, margin, percentage
}'
}
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Example output of the above function.

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