At least now it makes sense why the talented ones are getting voted off and the ones that should be gone aren't.
Idol better figure out a better way of doing this or it's over, at least for this watcher.
"Idol better figure out a better way of doing this or it's over, at least for this watcher."
I think the need to go the route of Nashville Star. They only let you vote once from your phone. You need multiple phone numbers to vote more than once. Also there is on-line voting. I was told that was one vote per email address.
That will put a stop to those who keep redialing the same number over and over again.
"At least now it makes sense why the talented ones are getting voted off and the ones that should be gone aren't"
They all should be voted off, there's not nickel's worth of talent in the whole group.
I agree. Why don't they have people vote by buying CD's off the internet? Showcase the candidates, post an official CD single for each candidate, and we vote by actually placing the order on our credit card?
Oops, that won't work...because the real purpose behind Idol is to generate phone traffic and make money for the phone companies.
Dead: And I actually like Scott. He’s edgier and funkier than all the other contestants.
And there you have it in a nutshell. Different strokes for different folks. I just made the following comments on the running AI thread. It may help bring the truth more clearly into focus.
I personally don't think that website and any others like it could swing the votes as much as they claim. AI says it's been receiving over 35,000,000 million votes (obviously not necessarily from 35,000,000 individuals). Dividing 35 million equally among the top six finalists produces 5,833,333 per contestant.
AI has never released the weekly totals or percentages for any contestant. But the percentages are what would help everyone understand all this better.
For example, the most recent AOL polls on the last six AI contestants had Bo and Carrie at 35% each. If that's really how the actual vote totals break down, that's 70% between just two contestants -- or 30% (10.5 mil based on a total of 35 mil) unequally divided among the bottom four people.
Understood in this way, a relatively few votes easily could separate the bottom two each week -- perhaps as litte as a few hundred or a few thousand. The spread between the bottom contestants might be as little as a fraction of one percent of the total votes cast each week, and certainly is not much greater than a couple of percentage points.
The differences at the bottom easily are explainable as the result of random weekly swings in the number of fans for a given contestant who were able to get through on the phone lines. The fact that many people vote for more than one candidate each week -- and vote multiple times each week -- further complicates the picture.