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.""

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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.

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.

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.