I was pretty excited to see the New York Times offer Election 2012, a compendium of news, polling results, candidate bios and a primary calendar. The app was listed as free, but when you actually get it up and running you'll find it is severely limited. If you want all the content, you're going to have to pony up for either a $14.99 Smartphone subscription, or have an All Digital Access subscription for $34.99 a month. If you don't you'll have access to exactly 6 stories per day, and the rest of the content is locked. There are other ways to get your fill of political news. Politico has iOS apps that are politically impartial and free. The Hill is another source of good political news and opinion. PoliticFact.com also offers a non-partisan fact checking iPhone app, and if you want your news with a Democratic, Republican, or Libertarian slant there Read More

...@yukikho: Vette app van de NYTimes voor de USA Election 2012, van primarycalendar tot opiniestukken. http://t.co/n2PMkJRg (via @jellespanjaard)... Read More

by The New York Times released its 2012 Election App for iPhone and iPod touch Thursday, which it calls a one-stop resource for political coverage and campaign news. The app integrates Web content with Times editorial coverage. Curated by a Times editor, the app’s news feed (its central feature) includes articles, blog posts, videos and tweets from external sources. The company says its syndicated political Op-Eds, editorials and blogs, such as The Caucus and Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight, will make the app an essential mobile destination for politics buffs. Election 2012 is free to download, but only Times digital subscribers have access to all the app’s content, such as the Election Guide. As a non-digital subscriber, you can just see the top six stories. You can also access the app’s content from a desktop browser, here. “Our goal is for the Election 2012 App to be the destination for people turning to Read More