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No, but this one does. Based on the "ass-u-me everything" one above, it also includes a bugfix so that it shouldn't break if there is more than one instance of Bush|Gore and appends to the logfile instead of overwriting. 485 bytes.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
open I,"lynx -dump http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/results/FL/index.h
+tml|";while(<I>){@j=split;if($j[1]){$j[1]=~s/,//g;}if(/\]Bush/){$b=$j
+[1];}elsif(/\]Gore/){$g=$j[1];}}close I;$l=`tail -n1 log`;@l=split / 
+/,$l;$d=abs($b-$g);if($l[1]==$d){die"same\n";}if($b==$g){$r="tied!\n"
+;}$b<$g ? $r="Gore: $d\n" : $r="Bush: $d\n";open O,">>out";print O "$
+r";close O;open F,"mfile";$m=<F>;close F;open(M,"|sendmail -t");print
+ M <<E;
Subject: results
Cc: $m
$r
E
close M;exit;
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In reply to RE: RE: RE: Post Election Day Perl by amelinda
in thread Post Election Day Perl by vroom

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