Romney to announce VP choice through a smartphone app

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Source: Yahoo News.com

Four years ago, then-Sen. Barack Obama made his vice presidential choice public by sending a mass text message to supporters. On Tuesday, Mitt Romney's campaign announced it will make its announcement through a smartphone app.

The campaign launched an app called "Mitt's VP" which will send the news straight to a smartphone using push notifications and then allow the user to easily spread the word on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

"The first official way to learn the name of the Republican Vice Presidential candidate is by using our new 'Mitt's VP' app," said Romney's digital director, Zac Moffatt, in a statement. "Users of the app will be the first to get the news on the biggest political decision of the year through an instantaneous alert on the one device most people carry around the clock—their phone."

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[trusty elf]

1. Can't wait to see how they screw this up.

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[GodlessBiker]

32. This should be interesting. Can an app be hacked?

[Renew Deal]

2. I don't think this will happen until the Olympics are over.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. Does that mean Siri is going to be his VP pick?

Maybe he doesn't know she isn't a real person, although she seems more real than him.

[matt819]

20. Speaking of (to) Siri

Bobby Jindal - Do you want your VP to be Rob a Kindle?
Nikki Haley - Do you want your VP to be Haley's Comet?
Marco Rubio - Do you want your VP to be Marco Polo?

Any other thoughts?

[Liberal Veteran]

25. Michelle Bachmann - I have found 45 inpatient mental facilities for Michelle Bachmann.

[Kolesar]

31. Ok, that's the funniest thing I read on the internet today

:lol: good work

[JenniferJuniper]

26. Ah, we laugh but

it's going to be a late night TV punch line. The guy is already perceived as souless robot with no critical thinking skills.

"Siri, pick my VP."

What a bunch of clowns.

[cleduc]

4. Obviously, they couldn't pursue something 'smart' when McCain picked Palin

because the 'smart' technology wouldn't allow such a dumb choice!

[trotsky]

5. For VP of AMERCIA? n/t

[berni_mccoy]

6. LOL! Thought the same thing!

[dballance]

11. Yes, doesn't "America" include Canada (N America) and

also Mexico and the rest of Central and S America?

It never ceases to annoy me that so many people use the term "America" interchangably with "USA." Once again arrogance by implying the US is the only country in America.

[TheDebbieDee]

54. "For VP of Amercia?" was the poster's jab at the Rmoney Campaign's mis-spelling on a campaign poster

or coffee mug or t-shirt or something..........

[progressivebydesign]

7. Wow. Mitt is SO hip! I bet ALL the cool kids will vote for him now!

Have they learned nothing from all of their previous fails? The Amercia thing wasn't the only one... I need a good mittVP hashtag for twitter, I have a few of my own suggestions.

And do they really think that any VP choice, short of David Beckham, is going to make a difference? If your entire campaign is resting on who is taking the #2 spot, then you have a CANDIDATE issue. That is completely pathetic.

""Users of the app will be the first to get the news on the biggest political decision of the year through an instantaneous alert on the one device most people carry around the clock—their phone." Wow.. again. Your candidate sucks rocks if THIS is considered the "BIGGEST political decision of the year!" Sad, sad, sad.

[nolabear]

8. And the 1.5 seconds later it'll be all over the media.

Way to lead from the back of the pack, Mitt. You are SOOOOOO 2008.

[onehandle]

9. That'll get the kids vote. nt

[madaboutharry]

10. That is just stupid.

[Scuba]

12. I'm still betting it's Ken Lay.

[A-Long-Little-Doggie]

13. That is one app I will NEVER download!

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14. And as long as you've touched on the subject

How much do you want to bet that the app won't be free?

(On edit) It is free. But even free apps carry advertising -- or donation requests, don't they? At least Obama PAID for his text message!

P.S. I'm off the hook -- it's not compatible with my Android!


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[matt819]

39. Wouldn't that be a riot

An ad-supported app that carries Obama for President advertising. OFA should be lining up that advertising right now.

Do you mean Frito Lay for Vice President?
Do you want to send an e-mail to Bachmann Pretzel?

[KamaAina]

45. It's not compatible with Android?

So I guess all you poor Android users out there are stuck with Obama and Biden.

[rocktivity]

46. No, its not compatible with my Android model

I suppose I need to move up to the G4 network or something.


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[Iliyah]

15. Man-up and come on national news

and take questions as well. Coward.

[lupulin]

16. A use once and throw away app.

In year long campaigns I guess seconds count.

[nichomachus]

17. About 80 percent of Romney's voting base either doesn't have or can't use a smartphone

They won't download the app.

And given the way Romney's campaign is going, the app will either crash the phone or have a virus.

[LibDemAlways]

22. You've got that right. The average Mitt voter is an

elderly church lady type who wouldn't know the first thing about how to use a basic cellphone much less a smartphone. They'd have a hell of a time even understanding what an "app" is, even if it was explained to them 40 times. Unbelievably stupid move.

[SoapBox]

18. Helllooooo?????

Can you hear me now? Now? NOW?

...seems Mittens has no "bars".

[Botany]

19. Dare I hope?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

24. Could be her. But this is always a possibility...

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52. Welcome to my "pout" collection, Christine!

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[Bossy Monkey]

21. The jokes just write themselves, don't they? n/t

[Kablooie]

23. Yay. The VP of Amercia!

Bet they considered making it a $4.99 app.

[Coexist]

27. they will find a way to make this funny (to us)

there will be a snafu.

[get the red out]

28. Ironic to make any "R" nomination via "Smart" phone.

The text will probably come out in gibberish.

[Enrique]

29. all his Twitter followers wiill be getting this app n/t

[Voice for Peace]

38. lol

Monsieur Adelson will probably buy a millionsworth for himself
and everyone at the casino.

[Tanuki]

30. How 'bout an app for releasing his tax records? eom

[cyclezealot]

36. Taking Mitt's time might be that his Veep pick is being "Vetted."

Too bad the American public could not be allowed that same procedure with Mitt's dubious business background.

[Mz Pip]

33. I'm not cluttering my iPhone

with a Romney app.

I'll learn soon enough who his VP pick is. I know already he will be another partisan hack.

[liberal N proud]

34. That is an oxymoron

Smart-phone - stupid people.

[lunatica]

35. Why? His backers will be telling HIM who the VP will be.

[JoePhilly]

40. Maybe that's why its an APP ... so they have an easy way to inform him of their decision.

[awoke_in_2003]

37. For some reason,

the geico commercial "do people use smart phones to do dumb things?" just popped into my head

[Peaceful Protester]

41. I heard Romney was considering...

...outsourcing the VP position.

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44. ...retroactively!

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[and-justice-for-all]

42. Its either DUMB or DUMBER...nt

[Bertha Venation]

43. This is what comes to mind:

Which part of the U.S. populace probably owns the fewest smart phones? The poor. Romney's campaign may not even have thought of this, and perhaps I'm making too much of it, but it seems to me that it's another way he's saying the poor do not matter. My two cents.

[sofa king]

47. It reminds me of this story:

Once I worked in an office that took up a couple of floors of a high-rise just outside of DC. Virtually everyone in the office was a Washington Wizards fan, and all of those people were fans of the team's excellent matched set of guards, Gilbert Arenas and Larry Hughes.

One day the other mailroom lads and I were cooling our heels around the work desk when from upstairs we heard voices yell, "NOOOO!" Then farther down the hall upstairs, and around the building, "NOOOO!"

Then the elevator chimed and people on our floor started shouting it. Finally, guy burst in to the mailroom and shouted, "they just traded Larry Hughes!"

And we all cried, "NOOOO!"

Listen for the reaction when this stupid app announces Mitt's pet rich white male Ivy League-er. I bet you'll hear it, and I bet it will be either, "huh?" or "NOOOO!" My money is on the latter.

[dipsydoodle]

48. Why would anyone want advance news of a loser ?

[bucolic_frolic]

49. Romney's Smartphone

A definite oxymoron

[Thor_MN]

50. hmmm give a GOP app permissions on my phone...

Let's see... umm... well.... Pass.

[Nye Bevan]

51. It's moments like this when you realize how absolutely clueless a candidate is about technology (nt)

[Ilsa]

53. On Sirius Left they said you

Have to give his campaign alot of information on yourself, including email. Hell, they could even track movements of users of the app.
The loss of privacy isn't worth it, IMO, even if you are a RMoney supporter.