Want Politicians to Show You the Money? Try This App

Wondering where Barack Obama and Mitt Romney's campaign donations are coming from?

Politicash 2012, a new mobile app from non-partisan research organization MapLight, aims to track money's influence on this year's presidential election in an easy-to-read way.

When you open Politicash, you're greeted with a series of screens showing the money raised by either candidate, whether that money was raised by their campaign or an affiliated SuperPAC, totals raised per month and other crucial data.

Select the next option, and you're shown the top five biggest donors to either campaign as well as SuperPACs. You can also see the biggest most recent donations as filed with the Federal…
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