Keeping the truth straight during an election cycle is very tricky. Luckily, PureWow found three free new apps that give the facts and skip the spin.
– Super PAC App helps you determine who is paying for presidential campaign ads--and why--just by holding your iPhone up to the TV. Using the same sound-recognition technology as Shazam, the Super PAC App will instantly tell you who’s behind the television spot, how much they spent, what their objectives are and to what extent the ad’s claims are true. (HOW COOL IS THAT?!)
– PollTracker shows who’s up, who’s down? and who’s moving. This new iPhone app offers up-to-the-minute poll numbers (averaged from sources like Gallup and Rasmussen) for both national and local races, broken down by things like gender, issue and voter subgroup.
– Settle It! The Pulitzer Prize–winning PolitiFact is widely considered the fact-checking authority, so it’s no surprise that their new iPhone and Android app is so great for easily learning the truth. The next time you want to know about a specific Romney or Obama claim, just look it up by name, keyword or subject and get the straight story.
Need a Feel Good Story? Check out these “Links I Like”:
– From Huffington Post: A high school cross country runner stops to help an opposing team mate and waits for help to arrive before finishing in his slowest time ever to a hero’s welcome.
– From the Today Show – Adam Greenberg gets a chance to have another at bat in the Majors after being injured on his first at bat in 2005 because of a filmmaker’s viral campaign!
Did you say FREE? Get a free health check or free museum entry for 2 on Saturday, Sept 29.
– Walgreens is offering a voucher for a free blood pressure screening, body composition test or a blood glucose test good through 11/7/2012 at participating locations.
– Smithsonian Magazine is offering free admission for two to hundreds of museums throughout the country on Saturday, September 29, 2012. Click here to find venues near you!
Great Deals –Daily Candy Deals – How I Love Thee…!
– Daily Candy Deals has a lot of fun stuff at the moment online and in cities near you AND if you make any purchase (except travel) and enter code THIRTY you get a 30% discount on the price of your chosen deal. (The fine print: Offer ends September 30, 2012, at 11:59 p.m. PDT. Excludes past purchases. Limit one discount per customer – so choose wisely!)
My favorites on Daily Candy Deals today:
– One-Year Subscription to Cosmopolitan Magazine plus a Copy of I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: Success Secrets Every Gutsy Girl Should Know for $19
– Save up to 52% off imaginative housewares you can customize from Deny Designs. Imagine bold, original artwork on pillows, bedspreads, shower curtains, even jewelry boxes. Picture a wall clock with a bangin’ textile pattern or a duvet cover with a dramatic portrait. You can choose from Deny’s collection of works or create your own design with personal photos or favorite images.
– In Chicago (or online) – save on custom made or ready made handbags or a party for 6 friends at1154 Lisa Lill Studios – $60 for $100 Toward a Handbag or $180 for a party for 6 people (with $50 credit for each person and refreshments) – a smoking deal with an additional 30%.
More Deals!
– I love New York. I like this awesome deal on the Hudson hotel on Jetsetter. In January, the rates are as low as $139/night! and while you are there, check out the deal on Rue La La for 50% off at Dream Bar ($37 for $75.)
– In Chicago? How about pizza and a movie? no, how about wine flights? Google deals has 2 pizzas and 2 beers at Pizza Persona for $12 (we tried this deal and bought it again!) or Two ($13) or Four ($24) VIP Super Saver e-Tickets to Regal Entertainment Group (Up to 48% Off) from Groupon – no expiration date!
– Prefer wine? How about 2 wine flights, cheese and charcuterie at Rittergut Wine Bar & Social Club for $25 from Travelzoo? (regularly $54) CBS Chicago calls Rittergut one of Chicago’s best wine bars, saying it’s “created something special” Seems worth a try!
Hey Runners – check out the 50% off deals from Gearbuzz on running clothes for men and women from Endomondo.
And don’t forget to enter to win some marathon t-shirts from Running Divas or a Nike Gift card by commenting on my weekend blog post!
Have a great weekend all!