tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636566.post114878139441918747..comments2023-10-23T16:34:24.530-05:00Comments on Thoughts That Get Stuck in My Head: So This Is What We Do With DemocracySue Londonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12820606642097170654noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636566.post-1149283038395923592006-06-02T16:17:00.000-05:002006-06-02T16:17:00.000-05:00*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh* I'm just a little too tired ...*siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh* I'm just a little too tired this week to come up with a more effective or entertaining rant, save to say that if one wishes to show that Americans are a shallow bunch more concerned with vapid entertainment than the world around them, one need not make shit up.nevsky42https://www.blogger.com/profile/05574395941311710814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636566.post-1149279209761744482006-06-02T15:13:00.000-05:002006-06-02T15:13:00.000-05:00I am entertained that THIS is what people bother t...I am entertained that THIS is what people bother to stop and comment on. I mostly posted it just to irritate Nev. I didn't realize it would get everyone else wound up.Sue Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12820606642097170654noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636566.post-1149278992932987452006-06-02T15:09:00.000-05:002006-06-02T15:09:00.000-05:00I still say they voted for that twitch Hicks as a ...I still say they voted for that twitch Hicks as a way of punking Cowell and showing their disgust with the program.<BR/><BR/>But to get to the vote totals issue, those vote totals are not about total voters, but votes. You can vote for an individual in that show as many times as you want. The fact is that every contestant has a great many automatic dialers and computer scripts sending in votes for them. There's a damned good chance that the number of actual voters was a fifth of the vote total.DBKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08182965443810437028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636566.post-1148931799244991652006-05-29T14:43:00.000-05:002006-05-29T14:43:00.000-05:00This is my favorite piece of oft-repeated sillines...This is my favorite piece of oft-repeated silliness. From the <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/25/AR2005052501965.html" REL="nofollow">Washington Post</A>.<BR/><BR/>"More than 125 million Americans -- 64 percent of those ages 18 and older -- went to the polls in last year's [2004] presidential election, according to data scheduled to be released today by the Census Bureau."<BR/><BR/>Almost twice the number of votes were cast in the most recent presidential election than in the most recent American Idol. Also, Taylor Hicks himself probably did not receive all 63 million votes, but rather, this would have been divided somehow between the two finalists. I doubt of the 63 million votes (not necessarily voters as Nevsky points out), few than 8 million went to Ms. McPhee.lucretiushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09358513143908186698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5636566.post-1148817546138552802006-05-28T06:59:00.000-05:002006-05-28T06:59:00.000-05:00But it's possible to vote more than once in Americ...But it's possible to vote more than once in American Idol, in Presidental elections you can only do that on Diebold machines...nevsky42https://www.blogger.com/profile/05574395941311710814noreply@blogger.com