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Re:The Republican Party has an API by cabalamat on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @03:25PM (#464592)
> I hope the Democrats will follow suit, or that Congress will put up a general API.

The worst thing would be if the Dems followed suit, but using a different API. Yuck.

Re:The Republican Party has an API by lallysingh on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @06:02PM (#464892)
It'd be hilarious for the two to use the same API, then patent it so that the Libertarians couldn't use it.

Just to piss them off :-)

Re:The Republican Party has an API by patio11 on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @08:00PM (#465064)
The great thing about APIs is if you don't like them you can wait two weeks and somebody will put them in a wrapper for you.

gem install acts_as_government anybody?