AOL Poll is pretty much an internet poll. It was a pretty good indicator last year of who's getting votes.
As of now, Kellie has gone into 2nd place and Ace picked up a few extra. Here's the line up...
Katherine
Kellie
Chris
Taylor
Mandisa
Elliott
Ace
Paris
Bucky
Not much change from yesterday. But at least Katherine is now on top of Kellie....hummmmm...that may be a bad choice of words since they're roommates!
I got this information from a poster in the American Idol official boards regarding the Land line call percentages for each Idol contestant for last Tuesday's theme ( 21st century music ).
Here it is ... gives you an indication of who is getting most of the votes.
See here :
http://myidol.idolonfox.com/Boards/topic.aspx?tid=141071
Combined time zone / island averages:
AT&T landline only
taylor: 29.99%
chris: 15.68%
kellie: 11.01%
paris: 7%
katharine: 6.64%
lisa: 6.14%
elliott: 6.08%
mandisa: 5.96%
bucky: 5.72%
ace: 5.28%
The landline results of this sort and others from
"dialing" estimates have had Taylor in the #1 spot by a LARGE MARGIN since day 1 of voting. they have been pretty spot-on in their stats.
This past week the bottom 6-7 were so close in numbers that mobile phone votes or texting was literally make or break for them as far as ranking goes. It's fun to see these "landline totals" and figure them into the busy signal type way of guesstimating... turns out to be quite similar when you look at the numbers.
These "landline totals" are supposedly the percentage of the populace who voted using standard landlines for each contestant. There is a margin of error, and if you add up the "averages", they come out to be about 99.5 instead of 100 because of rounding off & margins, etc.
They've been pretty derned accurate last year & this year they've been spot-on. Mobile calls & texting are make or break in some cases... This week (and last week) was a perfect example of that-- these are just landlines, no telling what the mobile & text totals are.
A lot of folks don't even have landlines and only use modem or mobile, so it's very iffy... but the landline totals & "busy" percentages give a good rough estimate of the rankings. this week alot of the contestants were SO CLOSE in their totals that the bottom 6-7 were in a danger zone & no real accurate "vote-off" prediction was possible without more (mobile/text) info.
BOTTOM LINE : IT AIN'T EVEN CLOSE.
THE ONLY QUESTION IS --- WILL THE SOUL PATROLERS GET LAZY AND COMPLACENT BECAUSE OF THE HUGE LEAD TAYLOR HICKS IS GETTING ( DOUBLE THAT OF THE NEXT STRONGEST VOTE GETTER ).