New App Is Tinder For Politics: Swipe To Find Out Which Candidates You Should Support Based On Your Opinions

A new app named ‘Voter’ is basically Tinder for politics, and it might help people figure out just who in the heck they want to vote for in 2016 as the Presidential Election is still as wide open as it’s ever been. You swipe based on major issues and then it matches you up with candidates based on your swiping activity, which can help you decide between candidates based on policy instead of charisma and party affiliation.

Now we typically have a policy here at BroBible where we’re not supposed to share our individual political affiliations (yes, BroBible is a collection of editors and not just one person), and I’m not trying to alienate anyone by sharing my own opinions, but I figured for the sake of this post I should at least test out the app and show you bros some screenshots + how it works + results.

I swiped through 2 levels of questions, things like ‘abolish the death penalty?’ and ‘send financial aid to foreign countries’ and though I’m a registered Republican I found that my answers on the 6 or 8 questions I swiped on had me at 70% Libertarian…Which is pretty fucking shocking to me because I don’t plan on voting for any of the Libertarian candidates. The results went on to explain because I’m for smaller government and more individual freedoms that I should be voting Libertarian.

Honestly, I find it bizarre as fuck that I can match 52% with Donald Trump while matching 53% with Bernie Sanders, but I guess at the end of the day these individual candidates aren’t as different from one another as the mainstream media wants to us to believe they are…And I mean that in terms of there’s only X number of issues they can take stances on, so there’s only Y number of opportunities for them to vary from one another.

So how’d the Voter App come to being? TechCrunch reports:

The service has 24,000 users and the company is raising capital.
“The platform we developed only recently became possible. Thanks to new open data initiatives, we now have access to up-to-the-minute political data,” said Scarborough. “This allows us to take an unbiased numbers-based approach that other political tools lack. To ensure the highest level of accuracy, we hold politicians accountable to their actions, analyzing candidates’ voting records, public agenda, personal views, speeches, and more.”

Voter is aimed at millennials who are political active. It’s basically a way to get up to speed on various candidates in a few seconds, a valuable proposition in this era of always-on news.

I get that app developers see this as a good opportunity to target millennial voters but they also need to consider that millennials are the most informed of any generation. Millennials spend all day attached to social media and the news, it’s the Baby Boomers that really need this app to reconsider their ‘Policy Stance vs. Party Affiliation’. That said, I don’t care how anyone else votes…To each his own. The app is pretty cool though, you can check it out by clicking here to get over to the iTunes app store.

SMDH…