Pardon me...it was 5,000,000 each.
Thank you. Even the low 1.3 million votes from Hawaii you report could definately make the difference between who went and who stayed.
Barrino, DeGarmo and London sang well last week... Trias did not. All three of the judges found she lacked pitch and feeling in what she sang. Kareokeville. She, by rights, should have gone... not La Toya London, who sang with feeling, on key, and creatively.
DeGarmo is very young and does not have an emotional feel for what she sings... she sings the notes well but puts no feeling into them. John Stevens suffered from the same lack of emotional knowledge of what he was singing. Give them both some seasoning and they will be fabulous singers.
I predicted before the results show that London would go... based on my analysis of the flawed voting for favorites. I figured there would be a racial impact as the vote for the two black divas would be split... with Barrino, the more accomplished and flamboyant of the two getting the lion share. I figured Hawaii would vote for its favorite daughter, and that a large white vote would go to the last white singer left. I was right. I wasn't happy about it. London and Barrino were and are the best two singers in this competition.
This is what you get when people vote for their favorite, rather than voting for the worst singer.
Next week, the honest musicians will vote Barrino... and the split black vote will re-unite and join with her as well. The balance of the country will counter weight the Hawaii vote and Jasmine Trias will be voted off . That being said, this ex-professional musician, predicts that it will be a DeGarmo/Barrino shoot off at the last... with Fantasia Barrino taking it.