Alan_H's Blog

We've got a new feature on the MyFoxWGHP.com Politics page I hope you'll check out.  The name Candidate Matchmaker is self-explanatory.

Compare your position on key political issues with those of current presidential candidates.  The matchmaker allows you to play 20 questions to find your closest political match and dig deeper into the candidates' answers, stances and news coverage.

The questions cover individual rights, domestic, economic, defense and international issues.  For each question, you rank your approval, opposition, or choose to have no opinion.

The wording of a few of the phrases is interesting.  Here are two Jason and I discussed after taking the quiz:

Drug use is immoral: enforce laws against it

Whether it is immoral or not, drug use is against the law.  Should we not enforce laws against something you consider moral?  

Allow churches to provide welfare services

Churches already provide these services.  Who would be against churches (or anybody) providing food for needy people?  The phrase's intent seems to be either churches or the government.

Jason and I each took the test and were surprised by the results.  We're not exact opposites on the political spectrum, but neither do we row in the same boat.  We each took it three times, and by modifying our answers, got a different result each time.  Our new web producer, Dara, was also surprised by her results.

Take the quiz http://election.myfoxwghp.com and share your results with us.