If you're voting via phone..you have to get through, right..I understand most people don't get through..whereas with TM..you gett hrough as many times asd you want, depending on how fast you can hit the buttons, and assumoing you are willng to pay, right?..There was a thread here yesterday I think, about some parent who went ballistiic when his daughter ran up a $1500 phone bill last month..99% of which was spent sending TMs during school hours..
Yes, you're right. You have to get through by phone, and it's hard to get through on the lines of the most popular contestants. Both TM and computer power dialing make a big difference. AI may draw 30+ million votes, but it may be that a comparatively small number of actual people do the voting.