POLITICO User Reviews

POLITICO
POLITICO
POLITICO, LLC

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App Wonโ€™t Open

The app wouldnโ€™t open after being downloaded. Please fix this problem

Impossible to open app

I am unable to open the app. I have tried deleting it and then reinstating, but all I get when I try to open it all I get is a sad ring trying desperately to open the app.
Help please.

Good app, bad journalism

The app is good but the journalism is poor quality. Many articles give the impression that the author doesnโ€™t believe what they are writing.

No longer able to highlight text

Itโ€™s a perverse decision to prevent the appโ€™s users from highlighting and copying sections of text directly from the articles. Iโ€™m not aware of any other news apps that prevents this.

It means I have stopped tweeting articles from the app because if I want to use a quote from a piece as a teaser (my preferred practice), I have to laboriously copy it out by hand before tweeting the article alongside it. Just way too much hassle.

I canโ€™t see any useful reason for this change. It certainly means I hardly use the app and just wait for tweeted versions from which only then can I highlight and copy sections of text.

Is there a reason for this? (I use an iPhone 11)
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Politico provides an excellent service for Americans

Politico provides an excellent service for Americans and others interested in knowing the truth about statements made in the news.

They one major drawback is that there are so many falsehoods spread by politicians, their supporters hoping to influence decision makers and voters as well as special interests hoping to gain financially and/or in other ways.

It would require a huge expansion of fact checkers to ensure that American readers and viewers had an accurate understanding of current events.
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Needs Refreshing

While the content remains pertinent to the dayโ€™s issues, the app does not function well. One must open the app twice (!) in order for the home page to refresh and be populated with current/new articles. The app ALWAYS opens up to the last/previous view of homepage articles, not taking into account / automatically populating new news/articles. This, the user has to close out of the app (AGAIN!) and open it back up (AGAIN!) in order to receive the most recent content. Very bulky and unnecessary. What gives?!?
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Excellent news analysis and beautiful insight.

Excellent insight

Great journalism, garbage app

This would have been a one star review if it hadnโ€™t been for the great content. The app, however, is all but useless and I always have to resort to the web browser version instead. Tell me if Iโ€™m doing something wrong, but all I get is a fairly bland looking list of days old news stories. Swiping down to refresh does nothing. When other news outlets offer analysis on the Trump document case, the app has been showing the same irrelevant piece about Ralph Nader for two days now. Am I doing something wrong?
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Politico

Very good!

Thorough review of many important issues of the day.

Iโ€™m appreciative of this news source; and look forward to reading more information about the current and future issues of importance in the world.

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