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"ABC News has upgraded its iPad app to deliver extensive elections coverage from the conventions and presidential debates leading up to the elections in November. \nThe app will provide a continuous news flow this week of the Democratic National Convention, including three live streams for mobile and desktop. \nPolitics is more interactive than ever. It's hard to miss a beat from the campaign trail as media channels use social networks and political apps for continuous coverage. For example, YouTube launched an Elections Hub, an online one-stop-shop for elections coverage, this year. The hub features content from ABC News, Al Jazeera English, The New York Times and other media. \n\nSEE ALSO: 5 Facebook Apps That Are Shaking Up Politics\nWith its iPad app, ABC News wants to help users \"narrow down a vast amount of information\" further by funneling live reports and analysis. One way the app does this is through a Storify social media feed that accompanies the live streams. \nThe app, which allows users to control their viewing experience and makes good use of the tablet-control interface, was also available for viewers of the Republican National Convention.\n\"By literally layering together live video with the text-oriented social feed, and letting users position the social content to their liking, we are taking a first step in exploring how to use touch navigation to fuse the television and desktop navigation sensibilities,\" says Doug Vance, vice president of product strategy at ABC News.\nSocial media is now an integral part of elections coverage. Other networks, including CNN, are utilizing Facebook as a \"second screen\" for political coverage. CNN's \"America's Choice 2012\" Facebook app debuted this summer. Facebook users can share their political views, track social buzz and participate in surveys on the social network.\nWhat's your favorite app so far this election season? Tell us what it is in the comments. \nInform Your Vote With These 6 Presidential Campaign Apps\n\n\nInform Your Vote With These 6 Presidential Campaign Apps\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n1. NBC Politics\n\n\nNBC's Politics app for iPhone and iPad delivers the latest up-to-the-minute NBC election coverage in a beautifully packaged, image-rich and easy-to-read format. Users can share stories to their Facebook and Twitter feeds directly from the app.\nNBC's app also lets users predict which candidate will win each state on Election Day, which is pretty good fun for the political nerds among us.\nRead Mashable's full review of the NBC Politics app.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n2. TPM PollTracker\n\n\nTalking Points Memo's PollTracker app gives you the latest polling results for the presidential and congressional elections straight to your iPhone the second they're available.\nPoll-hungry users can activate push notifications for alerts every time new poll results emerge. Users can also use the app to drill down into myriad polling data from around the country.\nRead Mashable's full review of the TPM PollTracker app.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n3. WP Politics\n\n\nThe Washington Post's WP Politics is an iPad-only app that repackages the newspaper's best political content. It includes rich, high-definition imagery from the newest iPad's retina screen.\nThe WP Politics app also has a map, but it's a bit different than the NBC map; this one shows polling data in each state, campaign ads running in swing states and a map of historical election data running all the way back to 1789.\nRead Mashable's full review of the WP Politics app.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n4. Stitcher Election Center\n\n\nStitcher gives users access to talk radio, podcasts and local radio stations right on their mobile devices. \nFor the 2012 election season, Stitcher has opened Election Center, which lets users follow particular candidates, commentators or issues across audio election news sources, such as C-SPAN and Fox News Radio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n5. Fox News You Decide 2012\n\n\nFox News' iPad-only app, You Decide 2012, lets users make political predictions to their heart's content with an interactive electoral map. Users can post their predictions to Facebook or Twitter to get their friends' comments.\nAs a major plus, top political operatives Karl Rove and Joe Trippi are using the app to make weekly predictions and to offer commentary on user-created maps.\nRead Mashable's full review of the You Decide 2012 app.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n6. Politico Playbook Mobile\n\n\nThe Politico Playbook has been dubbed \"the ultimate insider's guide for political outsiders,\" curating the must-know political stories of the day and delivering the list to subscribers.\nWith the Playbook mobile app, that must-read list of stories is easily accessible on your cellphone or tablet. Start reading now and you'll be well-equipped to make an educated choice come Election Day.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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