Phones App Shows Political Leanings By Location

An anonymous reader writes "This phone-enabled, java-app, Red | Blue, allows the user to identify the political leanings of their current location. "By taking your current location, and finding the nearest individual donors of campaign funds from the publicly available data from the Federal Elections Commission, red | blue is able to provide you an accurate reading of the political leanings of your surroundings -- red for Republican or blue for Democrat.""

Comments

I wonder what it was designed for

[Kanpai]

You have to wonder what exactly people have in mind when they make these things - though this is a cool little app.

Now i can do a quick check to find out whether it's safe for me to make loudmouthed comments about abortion and gay marriage in a public place, or where i should start handing out pins. It's certainly cheaper then getting run out of town or punched in the face.

Re:I wonder what it was designed for

[flyingsquid]

You have to wonder what exactly people have in mind when they make these things

Isn't it obvious? It's so you can find the location of the nearest red base, run in, steal their flag, and then take it back to the blue base.

New technology

[BaltikaTroika]

It's like the old days when you could tell GI Joe apart from Cobra by the colour of their lasers.

BaltikaTroika

Find donors here

[kajoob]

Here is a cool little search that let's you find who in your area (or wherever you want to search) donated how much to whom.

Simple Explanation

[ObligatoryUserName]

>> Am I the only one who's wondering why it's only available via cell phone?

According to the site, this app is an extension of the fundrace.org website, which does let you input a zip code. The cellphone app just takes your current GPS coordinates and checks it against the same database. They aren't trying to sell the software, it seems that they thought it was a moderatly cool idea for a cellphone app and ran with it. Kudos to the devs.

Phones Do Show Political Leanings By Location

[craXORjack]

If your cell phone is sitting on the dash of your two and a half ton SUV and you measure your fuel consumption in units of gallons/mile, you are proabably a republican.

If your cell phone is in your jacket pocket and you are pretending it is a gun while you hold up a liquer store because you lost your factory job, you are proably a democrat.

If you don't have a cell phone because you don't want to feed a huge greedy corporate oligopoly you are a Nader supporter.

If your cell phone is inserted in your boyfriends ass, you are either a Barney Frank supporter, a log cabin republican, or possibly just a seriously disturbed individual.

Re:WTF?

[Krow10]

In Europe, red = left, blue = right. In the US, the other way round.

On the other hand, you could argue US Democrats belong to the center-right by EU standards...

You could extend this and point out that the US Republicans have gone so far right that they've rolled the meter.

Cheers,
Craig