Politicash 2012 app for iPhone and iPad


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News Education
Developer: MapLight
Free
Current version: 1.0.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 25 Sep 2012
App size: 29.63 Mb

Who can afford campaign fundraising dinners that cost $40,000 a plate? Now you can find out with the free Politicash app. Politicash 2012 makes it easy to see exactly whos funding our presidential candidates, drawing back the curtain on even the most mysterious super PAC donors. The app provides:

-Head to head comparison of total contributions to Obama and Romney, including a fundraising breakdown by super PAC versus campaign committee
-Graphs tracking money raised and spent by each candidate over time
-The top 5 contributors overall and the biggest contributors in the last week of available records, updated regularly with the most up-to-date data
-A "Shake" feature, showing a random sample of contributors to each candidate -- you might be surprised who you find!
-An auto tweet feature alerting the candidates that youre keeping tabs on their fundraising

Politicash 2012 is the latest app from MapLight, a nonpartisan, nonprofit political money tracker. For more data and products from MapLight, visit http://maplight.org. Politicash 2012 was developed in partnership with the Brennan Center for Justice, the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, CREW, Global Exchange, Participatory Politics Foundation, Public Campaign, Rock the Vote, and Rootstrikers.