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Obama and Romney Both get ‘Bashed’ by Voters yielding iPhones

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Orlando. FL (PRWEB) October 26, 2012

Clever Fox Software is pleased to announce the immediate availability of it’s new mobile application Bash the Vote. Bash the Vote operates as a live national poll as users around the country cast their votes with ‘bashes’ to determine the overall election result. The concept is very straightforward and similar in style to a fast paced carnival game. The player must whack the moving head of the candidate they don’t like with a mallet while avoiding their presidential pick. There are 30 seconds on the clock to vote with the hammer as many times as possible while the White House hopefuls duck for cover. At the end of the game all of the players bashed votes are added to the ‘National Bash Tally’ which tracks the running totals from around the country.

“We were really surprised to suddenly see our little poll getting so much user attention.” said Clever Fox developer A J OToole. “That’s what we love about developing for mobile – you can come up with an interesting little social experiment, put it out there and just see what happens.”

“For the expert bashers we added a ‘Bonus Bash’ feature to unlock extra time.” said developer Phil Bias. “As with anything political we have some very passionate players on both sides of the fence. One individual player has already bashed President Obama close to 50,000 times and logged countless hours of play just to support his candidate”. An Apple Game Center leader board displays high scores and allows players to compete online. The ‘National Bash Tally’ is already well past 1 million bashed votes with just days left until election day.

As well as being independent developers the Clever Fox team are also independent voters. The main menu displays a countdown to election day, and a large Remember to Vote button links out to an information page on how to register and vote in the upcoming presidential election. The team says that beneath the bashes and bruises the app carries a simple reminder. “‘Bash the Vote’ demonstrates true power in numbers as each citizen whacks away for their candidate. Similarly we feel that everyone should make a strong effort to vote for the next President on November 6th and participate in the process wherever possible.”

A Twitter feed @bashthevote allows players to continue to track the poll and tweet comments after their bashed votes have been submitted. The ‘National Bash Tally’ will stop counting bashes at midnight on election night. After the final bash is tallied and the ‘Bash the Vote’ winner is officially announced on Twitter, Clever Fox plans to make their own version of a campaign donation. A ‘Bash the Vote’ win for Obama will mean a charitable contribution to his wife Michelle’s childhood obesity initiative Let’s Move. A win for Romney will see the donation go towards an equally good cause The National Multiple Sclerosis Society of which his wife Ann Romney is an active board member.

‘Bash the Vote’ is available as a free download on both Apple iOS and Android devices. Clever Fox Software is an independent software development studio based in Orlando, Florida. The company specializes in crafting innovative games and apps for mobile devices.







Romney Leads Among Likely Voters in the South, Midwest and West; Obama Ahead in Northeast, According to New American Pulse Analysis

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Worthington, Ohio (PRWEB) May 31, 2012

Mitt Romney maintains a lead over President Obama among Likely Voters in the most recent American Pulse Survey (May-12, N=3751). If the election were held today, 43.4% of Americans who are somewhat/very likely to vote in the 2012 Presidential Election say they would vote for the Republican, versus 41.2% for the incumbent. Romney appears to have the strongest Likely Voter base in the southern states, with a sizable advantage over Obama. He is also up by two percentage points in the Midwest and ahead slightly in the West. President Obama is the popular choice among Likely Voters in the Northeast.

“Given the following choice, who would you vote for?” (Likely Voters)

Who Should You Vote for? Candidate Calculator Saves Voters Time

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) March 06, 2012

Introducing VoteHelp (http://www.votehelp.org/) a nonpartisan candidate calculator that helps voters choose which presidential candidate to support based on the issues. The VoteHelp quiz, which takes an average of 5 minutes to complete, was taken over 500,000 times during 2008 election, and has recently been updated for 2012 to include issue positions for the current leading presidential candidates on todays most relevant issues.

At the unbiased VoteHelp.org website, voters select where they stand on key issues and rate the importance of each issue. VoteHelp then matches voters to candidates. The timesaving features allow voters to size up presidential candidates quickly and help make an informed decision. Research shows that lack of information is one of the largest barriers for voter turnout, especially among the young, many of whom used VoteHelps candidate calculator in 2008. VoteHelp eliminates the need for citizens to slog through speeches, debates, candidates websites, interest group ratings and voting records to find candidates who best represent them.

The website was recently updated for 2012 to allow comparisons with the four leading Republican candidates, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul, as well as with Barack Obama. Key 2012 issues include immigration policy, defense spending, civil liberties, government spending, corporate regulation, taxation of the wealthy, Medicare reform, Israel policy, education spending, gay marriage, abortion, the environment and more. Hundreds of hours of research went into capturing the nuances of the 2012 candidates positions. Our team at VoteHelp used the candidates speeches, debates, their own websites, interest group ratings and voting records to determine their positions.

Our mission is to provide Americans with objective, quickly accessible information on how their own views compare to where the Presidential candidates stand on the issues, said Ravi Iyer, PhD, VoteHelp cofounder. Per Iyer, Each of us bases our vote on different criteria, so we designed Votehelp.org to allow users to personally weight the importance of each issue.

In addition to a list of best candidate matches, users can compare their views with candidate views on an issue by issue basis using VoteHelps innovative candidate comparison graph. VoteHelp.org also has an optional personality module for users who want to add their views of the candidates personalities to their calculation.

As a recent father of twins and CEO of Ranker.com, I understand the value of peoples time, said Clark Benson, VoteHelp cofounder, We created the site out of respect for the fact that not every person has the time to research every candidates positions on each issue.

Please contact Ravi Iyer at 323-687-0764 for more information on VoteHelp.