Using Python to fetch Republican Primary results in JSON

import json
import sys
import urllib2
from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
import re


#Usage python elections.py State Name
#Example python elections.py massachusetts

state = sys.argv[1]
url = ("http://elections.msnbc.msn.com/ns/politics/2012/%s/Republican/primary/" % state)
html = BeautifulSoup(urllib2.urlopen(url)).prettify()

soup = BeautifulSoup(html)


cities = soup.findAll("div", {"class": re.compile(r'\bresultSlice\ countyResults\b')})

results = {}

for city in cities:
    cityName = ''.join((city.find("div", {"class": "state"})).findAll(text=True)).strip()
    results.setdefault(cityName, {})

    table = city.findAll("table", {"class": "results"})
    for rows in table:
        rows = rows.findAll("tr", {"class": re.compile(r'\brep\b')})
        for row in rows:
            try:
                canidate    = ''.join(row.find("td", {"class": "name"}).findAll(text=True)).strip()
                votes       = ''.join(row.find("td", {"class": "votes"}).findAll(text=True)).strip()
                if votes == "":
                    votes = 0
                results.setdefault(cityName, {}).setdefault((canidate.replace("\n","")).replace("                            ", " "), {})['votes'] = votes
            except Exception:
                continue

print json.dumps(results, indent=4)