s.If Diana doesn't win, I'll know the whole thing is fixed.
s.I've been laughing my butt off over this issue. The whiners are about as bad as Florida Democrats.
This certainly must count as one of the most serious puzzlements facing mankind since the selection of Richard the Fey as the winner of the original "Survivor."
Hawaii is in a time zone several zones away from the Mainland... when AI finishes airing their, they have no trouble getting through to vote for thier state favorite, Jasmine Trias... and very few votes for the other candidates.
Thus Trias voters in Hawaii get no busy signals and Jasmine gets a huge boost in votes.
The whole voting process is flawed.
This could be fixed by having the audience vote FOR THE WORST SINGER... the one to leave the show... instead of voting for their favorite.
To paraphrase Rodney King: "can't we all just... get a life?"
Ping
All they did was test the capacity of the telephone voting system. It took slightly less time to say "Thank you for voting for Ruben Studdard" than it did to say "Thank you for voting for Clay Aiken" giving Ruben the edge.
The real vote came later when Aiken's records outsold Studdard's by three and four to one margins.
Sore Loserman mentality continues to seep in to the fabric...
Please don't confuse me with someone who cares
Oh NO! This calls for an investigation and at least one Congressional commission! With all that is happening in our world, this is what has people upset!
This is worse than Floriduh!
I think Fantasia is going all the way this year. I like American Idol, it makes great backround TV. It's the closest thing we've currently got to an old fashioned variety show.
Bump for later reading.
This woman needs to get a life.
My favorite part is that you can bet on this at off shore books. How great is that.
i stopped watching after week seven because my husband and i decided to drop television... (although i continued to vote for George Huff--but he's out of the competition now, so i've stopped voting too)... but when i would call and get a busy signal i assumed that meant NO vote... and i never waited until the recording said, "thank you for voting for contestant number whatever," before i would go on and vote again...
i don't see how this is a big deal... of course, if you cannot get through, it doesn't count... it always seems that busy signals are a good sign--and totally open lines tend to be for contestants that no one is calling for--so they tend to be the ones who are dropped from the competition...
If they had seperate phone lines for each person and only two people were left, wouldn't this always result in a near tie every time.
I.e. if the phone lines are saturated with calls, both lines would be receiving calls at the highest rate possible. So, it should always be a tie, plus or minus a small error.
The voting problem is quite simple. Individuals get more then one vote. The results will always therefore make it a popularity contest.
Good thing I could care less about that rediculous circus of a show. I find it hilarious how culturally PC it is every season (notice the race/gender of the winners, and the race/gender of the "beloved" final three in this years competition) and just turning to the show makes me want to scream.
The 14-year-old-girl-crowd just doesnt appeal to me, I guess. I'm not interested in watching a bunch of dim-witted girls and flamboyant (and also dim-witted) young men scream over the potentially "hot new singer in America", no thanks.
It saddens me that the entertainment business is so successful in creating a society of youths that embrace anti-religious, anti-conservative, neo-socialist (and somehow...family oriented??) sentiments while when asked about politics or their thoughts on global issues they are as responsive as a deer caught in headlights.
MY American Idol is George W. Bush, who's yours?
Corey