For those who wished that Rick Perry would have been more animated in the Republican presidential debates, here’s your chance for a do-over. On Monday, New York-based Web animation studio GoAnimate launched a new election app allowing anyone with an Internet connection to quickly create their own animated political videos for free and share them on social media.The Flash-based web app launched with 10 candidates to begin with, including President Obama and alternating Republican frontrunners Herman Cain, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachmann. There are 20 animated characters in total, from House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) to Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to journalists to debate moderators, voters and “locals” like bartenders, as well as five different settings – from a debate stage to a bar. But GoAnimate plans to continuously update their library and add new characters and settings through the General Election on November 6, 2012.
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