Idol voting...

There has been a lot of talk this week about how close the American Idol vote was on Tuesday. First off, let me say that I was happy to hear them lay claim to 50 million "votes". Last week they said they had 45 million "people" vote. Uh...no. They have like 4 million voting a dozen times each (or some other plausible equation).

The vote they posted for the final three basically split 33/33/33 with the remaining one percent deciding it. This is a bit misleading. In reading some different forums, it appears that the phone lines were clogged for the entire two hours with a lot of people unable to get in to vote at all. That would account for the votes being almost a dead heat. It's impossible to say what the vote would have been had everyone who wanted to vote had gotten to cast one. The difference between them was apparently the text votes that came in. (Unless you're one of the American Idol conspiracy theorists who say it's all rigged...sometimes I wonder).

There were a lot of posts about how people were surprised that Elliott went home considering he had such a huge "home town" reception compared to Kat. Kat is from Hollywood. They are in celebrity overdrive there and an Idol wannabe isn't going to impress them much.