[TommyDale]

Anyone else notice this tonight?

[WSGilcrest]

Got you beat. THERE'S NO FREAKING SOUND! I'm watching their lips move.

[Swordmaker]

I suspect your trunk lines were overloaded by everyone in town voting for Clay...

[lsee]

I never could get through on my telephone, but voted many times with AT&T text messaging. Hope that won't cost a bundle as I have no idea what my service agreement charges for text messaging!

Did you see Oprah's hour-long commercial for Ruben today? I could not believe Fox would allow such an obviously biased program by someone as influential as Oprah to air the day of the competition.

That program should have shown on Wednesday, when Oprah's shameless promotion of one contestant over the other two would not have made a difference. Simon has also been doing his best to influence the outcome of this contest, which in my opinion, smacks of impropriety.

[Fawnn]

For what it's worth, I live in a small town on the "west coast" of Ohio and I didn't have a dial tone from 9pm 'til about 9:05pm. I guess both of us in this town can't use the phone at the same time. Good thing I'm no longer on dial-up. ;)

[justshe]

If it is any consolation....I logged an even 100 votes for Clay .....from Oregon.

[mel]

Would someone tell me the results of last night's show 5/13. the entertainment sites are blocked here. thanks so much i am for Clay, I tried to call about 20 times last night and the phone was constantly busy. thanks

[windcliff]

Who's stronger.....The Green Lattern or Tarzan?

[GraniteStateConservative]

It would be shocking if Aiken, with his broad fan base, doesn't win the whole thing. I wouldn't sweat it. If this were a one person, one vote thing, Aiken might be in trouble.

[Celantro]

My wife, one of my sons, and I decided we'd pick up the phone and vote for Clay last night. It took more than 100 dial-ins to get our three votes registered. Thanks goodness for auto-redial. They want the huge fat guy to win.

[DoughtyOne]

Last night during the time in question 18 million more phone calls than normal were made in California alone. That's just California. Imagine the problem this created nationally. People must have gone Ameircan Idol 'postal' last night. No phone system is going to hold up under these conditions. I imagine Ruben's fans had problems making phone calls too.

[Redwood71]

I guess this can go down in the voting hall of fame along with the thousands of dead people that voted for Kennedy in the 1960 election in the Chicago area.