more people voted for american idol than the presidential election

**RayBonga** · 05-25-2006, 06:45 AM

Maybe the winner of American Idol should get to be president.

Now, that would be democracy.

**xclusive** · 05-25-2006, 06:56 AM

they were both rigged so the votes shouldn't matter

**sickkittens** · 05-25-2006, 06:57 AM

Because all of those kids who watch American Idol can vote for a president.

**Pure Evil** · 05-25-2006, 07:01 AM

because people don't actually have to get off their asses and register to vote for american idol. most people are lazy bastards

**Screaming** · 05-25-2006, 07:08 AM

thats fucking nuts..

**atom** · 05-25-2006, 07:19 AM

how do you figure? there were 122,293,332 total votes in the 2004 US election. I saw on the news this morning that there were 36,000,000 for american idol....

**Phoenix** · 05-25-2006, 07:20 AM

that screams pathetic

**baddog** · 05-25-2006, 07:22 AM

Originally posted by Phoenix

that screams pathetic

You believe everything you read on the Internet, don't you?

**baddog** · 05-25-2006, 07:23 AM

should probably take into account that you can vote multiple times on AI . . . it is a little more difficult to do that in a Presidential election.

**E$_manager** · 05-25-2006, 07:46 AM

the talk is useless

**Dollarmansteve** · 05-25-2006, 08:17 AM

lets state some facts and stats:

The TOTAL amounts of votes cast was 60+ million, which is more than any SINGLE presidential candidate has gotten, but about half of what the last election got in total.

I believe that the show itself has about 30 Million viewers - Lets assume that 20 million of those viewers cast votes - that means each person that voted would have cast 3 votes on average sincle multiple votes are allowed.

Also, lets assume that the number of votes per voter is negatively correlated to age, therefore a 12 year old is more likely to cast more than three votes, and that voting propensity drops as age increases - so a 30 year old (for example) is most like to only vote once.

So, assuming the bulk of the viewing audience is in the 12 - 34 age demographic and that young, teenaged girls are the most likey to vote.. I would say that perhaps as high as 40% of the people that voted were teenaged girls under the age of 18 and cast an average of 5 votes each. So, of the 60 million votes cast, 40 Million of them may have come from 12 - 17 year old girls.

So until their votes count in presidential elections - all this talk is complete crap.

But then again, 63% of all statistics are made up on the spot

**Phoenix** · 05-25-2006, 08:19 AM

Originally posted by Dollarmansteve

lets state some facts and stats:

The TOTAL amounts of votes cast was 60+ million, which is more than any SINGLE presidential candidate has gotten, but about half of what the last election got in total.

I believe that the show itself has about 30 Million viewers - Lets assume that 20 million of those viewers cast votes - that means each person that voted would have cast 3 votes on average sincle multiple votes are allowed.

Also, lets assume that the number of votes per voter is negatively correlated to age, therefore a 12 year old is more likely to cast more than three votes, and that voting propensity drops as age increases - so a 30 year old (for example) is most like to only vote once.

So, assuming the bulk of the viewing audience is in the 12 - 34 age demographic and that young, teenaged girls are the most likey to vote.. I would say that perhaps as high as 40% of the people that voted were teenaged girls under the age of 18 and cast an average of 5 votes each. So, of the 60 million votes cast, 40 Million of them may have come from 12 - 17 year old girls.

So until their votes count in presidential elections - all this talk is complete crap.

But then again, 63% of all statistics are made up on the spot

dont bring facts into this...was a good opportunity to bash the amers

**ajrocks** · 05-25-2006, 09:09 AM

Thats what they told everyone but the truth is people were able to vote more then once. The idiots that vote for stuff like this vote two of three times I bet.

**mOrrI** · 05-25-2006, 09:11 AM

Thanks program didn't have any success in my country :P

**Dollarmansteve** · 05-25-2006, 09:18 AM

Originally posted by Phoenix

dont bring facts into this...was a good opportunity to bash the amers

Im just a total kill-joy arent I. Maybe I should stick to sarcastic one-liners and name calling

**distingo** · 05-25-2006, 09:49 AM

maybe we should vote for presidents by phone or sms ?

**Michael O** · 05-25-2006, 10:12 AM

Originally posted by Dollarmansteve

lets state some facts and stats:

The TOTAL amounts of votes cast was 60+ million, which is more than any SINGLE presidential candidate has gotten, but about half of what the last election got in total.

I believe that the show itself has about 30 Million viewers - Lets assume that 20 million of those viewers cast votes - that means each person that voted would have cast 3 votes on average sincle multiple votes are allowed.

Also, lets assume that the number of votes per voter is negatively correlated to age, therefore a 12 year old is more likely to cast more than three votes, and that voting propensity drops as age increases - so a 30 year old (for example) is most like to only vote once.

So, assuming the bulk of the viewing audience is in the 12 - 34 age demographic and that young, teenaged girls are the most likey to vote.. I would say that perhaps as high as 40% of the people that voted were teenaged girls under the age of 18 and cast an average of 5 votes each. So, of the 60 million votes cast, 40 Million of them may have come from 12 - 17 year old girls.

So until their votes count in presidential elections - all this talk is complete crap.

But then again, 63% of all statistics are made up on the spot

And 10% of people don't know what percentages mean thats like 1 out of 7 people.

;)

**seeric** · 05-25-2006, 10:30 AM

well, at least when you vote on american idol, the candidate you vote for actually gets that vote.

**BigCashCrew** · 05-25-2006, 10:55 AM

Each person can vote up to 10 times. This is not 60mil unique votes.

**I LOVE Little Brown Asses** · 05-25-2006, 10:58 AM

Originally posted by distingo

maybe we should vote for presidents by phone or sms ?

NOW we're talking!

**iWeb_Iya** · 05-25-2006, 05:55 PM

Originally posted by baddog

should probably take into account that you can vote multiple times on AI . . . it is a little more difficult to do that in a Presidential election.

**madawgz** · 05-25-2006, 06:05 PM

i cant believe that show is still on, ugh..............:\

more people voted for american idol than the presidential election

more people voted for american idol than the presidential election

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