American Idol Success Spawns American Candidate

According to the Drudge Report, the success of Fox’s ‘American Idol’ and inspired by a similar show planned in Argentina, the Rupert Murdoch FX network is set to mount an ambitious two-year endeavor that will culminate in the American public voting on — a “people’s candidate” to run for president of the United States in 2004. Like Idol, the number of semifinalists will be whittled down each week, based on live audience response and telephone/Internet voting.