Away on vacation, visiting family (as you can see by my last location on the right, and the lack of activity recently). I've tweaked and polished red | blue for release, available here.

By taking your current GPS location, and finding the nearest individual donors of campaign funds from the publicaly available data from the Federal Elections Commission, red | blue is able to provide you an accurate reading of the political leanings of your surroundings -- red for Republican or blue for Democrat.

It really works well -- I'm pretty impressed with what it can do, and the speed of development. The magic, of course, if there is any, is the power of democracy, and the fact that this data is not only available but can be used to provide a curious, possibly powerful window into the flow of money (thus, influence) into the political machine.

A big thanks to Mike Frumin at Fund Race for the geocoded FEC data.