American Idol: Antonella And Blake Lead The Voting
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March 8, 2007
The Vizu Corporation specializes in online polling. This year they are looking at who is voting for whom when it comes to American Idol. Think you know? You may be surprised. I was. Here's what they have to say.
Online pollster Vizu Corporation has conducted its polling for this week’s “American Idol” competition and once again concluded that America’s votes are not where its mouths (or ears) are.
Despite once again being dominated by better performances, Antonella Barba remains the leading vote-getter among the female field with 26.8% of the vote. Barba has now faced two weeks of scrutiny stemming from sexually lewd photographs of her appearing on the Internet. Yet the added media attention is continuing to offer more help than harm, as she remains atop her competition for the second consecutive week.
Voters appear to correct themselves after Barba’s anomalous showing, placing Melinda Doolittle (23.1%) and LaKisha Jones (19.7%) also in contention. While in tonight’s results show, Stephanie Edwards (2.7%) and Haley Scarnato (4.6%) are most likely to be leaving the program, although neither Jordin Sparks nor Gina Glocksen are comfortably outside the poll’s margin of error (3.37%).
Edward’s low showing is equally surprising, considering her consistent quality performances and approval by judges. Given her song selections and style, however, she is most likely splitting, and losing, the R&B vote to Doolittle and Jones.
On the men’s side, beat-boxing Blake Lewis is dominating all challengers with 35.3% of the vote, with Chris Sligh (22.3%) in a distant second. Set to exit this week are Jared Cotter (3.6%) and Brandon Rogers (4.8%), with Phil Stacey also not safely outside that poll’s 4.04% margin of error.
Polling conducted last week confirmed the correct losers to be dismissed from the field of 16. More notably, those polls showed non-performance related factors affecting voting. In addition to sex selling for Barba, last week’s data showed politics coming to the rescue of Sanjaya Malakar, where bloc Bollywood voting spared Idol’s first Indian-American finalist despite a poor showing and panning by the show’s judges.
This week, Vizu Answers polling was conducted from March 6, 2007 through March 8, 2007. Polls are placed within a random selection of at least 40 publishers, achieving at least 500 responses.
Vizu Answers will continue to run polling projections throughout the “American Idol” competition.
I guess most of you are PO'd that she posed half nude on the WWII memorial therefore that's just "another" (besides she can't sing) reason to kick her ass to the pavement.
It doesn't matter what happens now to Antonella because there is not a snowballs chance in hades she going to get any kind of recording contract, but you can bet a dime to a dozen doughnuts she'll be wearing some kinda lingerie, (or not wearing any) for the camera and raking in millions.
She's a winner no matter what, despite her shotty voice and crappy singing!
If it's true that Sanjaya and Antonella stay in it tonight, well that is what Simon, Randy and Paula deserve. I believe they put them through not based on talent but based on ethnicity and looks. They want to keep touting the line "this is a singing competition" but if they had truly believed that, there would have been others that were far more talented that they cut loose, and they know that. AI is losing its appeal for me this year.