Well, it seems I’m not the only one mystified by the Fox News Candidate Calculator. I admit,
when I first saw the news blip about it I didn’t follow their instructions on how to find it
again. I thought, well I can always use Google!
Well, that didn’t work. And maneuvering their site didn’t work. I was quite lost, in fact.
What I did find was the VAJoe Candidate Calculator which you can find here. This seems like
a perfectly good alternative to the Fox News Candidate Calculator since it apparently does
not exist.
In fact, ironically, now when I Google “Fox News Candidate Calculator” I find my own site,
which is flattering but not altogether useful since I have no useful links.
However, I have contacted Fox and requested the url to their legendary candidate calculator
and will post it as soon as I know.
Amendment: I have received the link to the Fox News Calculator.
Here’s the response from Fox News:
Dear Reader,
Thank you for your e-mail. Here is the website mentioned on Studio B on Tuesday, January
08, 2008: http://www.citizenjanepolitics.com/compare-your-candidates/
(As per the amendment below the above link does NOT direct
you to a Fox News Candidate Calculator.
Someone at Fox is working for Citizen Jane.)
Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Viewer Services, FOX News Channel
So that’s it. The magical link. Of course, it’s not actually a Fox News Candidate Calculator
like they made it sound. It’s at a site called Citizen Jane Politics. Well, I find it
somewhat misleading, but oh well, now we can all use VAJoe and Citizen Jane, and with a
little luck, we won’t have to make any judgments ourselves at all.
Amendment of an Amendment: The Link that Fox provided is bogus, as one of our readers has
been so good as to point out to me. I have become so solidly behind my candidate (Giuliani)
that I did not feel the need to take the quiz, and thus did not invest more than a
perfunctory click. This, I fear, is my fault. I should have done my research. Then again,
Fox News should have provided me with the correct URL. In any case, I will write back and
demand justice.
More on this tomorrow, after I get hold of Fox again.
In the mean time, if anybody has the proper link please post it. At this point I’m dying of
curiosity. It feels like some strange, pointless conspiracy…