Mitt Romney To Announce VP Decision Via Smartphone App

redletterdave writes "In 2008, then-Illinois Sen. Barack Obama decided to announce his running mate, then-Delaware Sen. Joe Biden, over a text message, which was sent out to Obama's legions of followers. Four years later, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, the likely presidential nominee from the Republican Party, has decided to make his VP announcement over a smartphone app. On Tuesday, Mitt Romney's campaign team launched a smartphone app called 'Mitt's VP,' which promises app users will be the first to know the official news of Romney's running mate for the November election. Once Romney makes his decision, he will announce the news over the app, which will alert smartphone owners with a text notification."

Comments

Tech savvy: A smartphone app for a text message?

[MobyDisk]

Someone who makes an entire app just to receive a text message, does sound like someone who will run an efficient government.

Re:Tech savvy: A smartphone app for a text message

[Bish0p]

And do you trust that the only thing the app is doing is providing you a text message when the announcement is sent out?

Put on the evil genius hat for a bit and ponder what neat things you could use the app for before and after it' purpose to do additional stuff to the stooges that fell for the trick of 'install this app to receive a text message'.

Re:I think everyone has already made up their mind

[TheCarp]

> Anyone thinking that she was a positive for the GOP is also a
> fucking twit. She did more damage to the GOP brand every time
> she opened her dumb mouth-hole.

Um really? Do you see one of their men in the hot seat for what was the coming economic crisis? Is their man defending his record during a major recession?

Palin was a smart choice for throwing the election, when they already had a good enough candidate for their aims being run by the Dems.

The GOP has spent the past 20 years going off the deep end and pulling the dems over to their side. We have a Dem president who came out of the gate proposing the old GOP healthcare reform, even fighting them for it.

They already won. The last thing they would want is to have to take credit, it ruins their whole strategy, as they demonstrated with Bush II.

People don't seem to realize, you don't win under this system by supporting your people and compromising with likeminded people. You win by going so far to the extreme of your view, that others have to compromise with you.