The Washington Post’s Paul Farhi says Fox News has yet to crown any one Republican candidate as the eventual nominee, even though the network “seemed poised to play a kingmaking role in the 2012 primaries.” Farhi writes:

Campaign watchers are hard-pressed to detect a tilt by the network toward one candidate. Even the two candidates who have worked for Fox News as on-air contributors, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, don’t appear to have had any special access or advantage during the campaign.

A Stanford poli-sci prof says if the GOP field narrows to two candidates, Fox is more likely to pick sides and tout a candidate it believes has the strongest chance to defeat President Obama in the fall.

* Despite kingmaking expectations, Fox News seems neutral among GOP field