CNN The Situation Room Spotlights the AllMilitary Candidate Calculator
More Than 2 Million Voters Have Taken the Poll
On Sept. 20, 2007, the CNN political news show The Situation Room spotlighted the AllMilitary Candidate Calculator. Anchorman Wolf Blitzer and Internet reporter Abbi Tatton discussed the calculator, which determines which 2008 presidential candidates agree most with users of the calculator on today's political issues. Users click Yes or No to indicate if they support a current political issue, and the Candidate Calculator shows which candidates match most often with them.
Following is the discussion between Blitzer and Tatton about the AllMilitary Candidate Calculator:
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BLITZER: A new online tool that calculate -- calculates your ideal presidential candidate has thousands of people playing online. One Democratic presidential candidate is hoping the results will boost his campaign. Let's go to our Internet reporter, Abbi Tatton. Abbi, how does this Web site work? ABBI TATTON, CNN INTERNET REPORTER: Wolf, you punch in the issues that are important to you as a voter, and it generates the candidate that best matches. It's Web site called AllMilitary.com, an unofficial Web site for the military community. And it has got pretty popular since this tool launched at the beginning of last week, almost 200,000 people playing so far. Now, which candidate has emerged most frequently so far as ideal? It is this man, Democrat Mike Gravel, seen here in campaign video, a candidate that barely registers in polls. Now, there are various tools like this one online. But the Gravel campaign is now touting the results of this one in an e-mail to supporters. A spokesman tells CNN that people that took the quiz have been contacting them, saying, who is this guy? Why did he come up? The creators of the site, AllMilitary.com, said it has no political affiliation, stress their calculator is not scientific -- Wolf. |
