RTFA: http://wjbk.4wmt.com/cmm/

Welcome to the MyFox Candidate Matchmaker. Compare your position on key political issues with those of the current presidential candidates.

Here you can:

* Play 20 questions to find your closest political match
* Dig deeper into the candidates’ answers, stances and news coverage
* Download a cool political bobble head widget
* Embed this quiz on your blog or site

So, what are you waiting for? Take the Candidate Matchmaker challenge today.

I heard that WJBK, a Detroit-area Fox station, was providing weird results with its “Candidate Matchmaker” so I decided to test it out. The answers below would probably be moderately irritating to a “social conservative” – and they’re definitely not my personal views – but let’s see who this Fox affiliate recommends…

Either McCain is suddenly hip to abortion, pulling out of Iraq, and boosting alternative fuel sources, or I missed something here. Maybe it was the part about the Drugs, Social Security, or the Patriot Act? …er, that’s probably not it either.

According to this Fox affiliate, McCain is exactly tied (33%-to-33%) with Obama on these “progressive” issues… and we are left to choose between a few competing interpretations:

* McCain is a decent match for “social progressives” and a letdown for “social conservatives”
* National Fox News is selling a different McCain than local Fox News
* Obama and McCain are more similar than different
* the WJBK algorithm simply has some programming errors

What’s your take?

RTFA covered a variety of Candidate Matching services a few days ago. Read on for more detailed analysis.