free java app plots out the political landscape based on your location
Saturday, October 30th, 2004The 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.
According to the site, this app is an extension of the fundrace.org [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.
Check out this free download at www.gravitymonkey.com .
* as seen on politics.slashdot.org
