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Originally Posted by Vendzilla
Things have changed and her reality show broke records and her daughter is in the top three on dancing with the stars. And it ain't because of her dancing. She's more popular than ever.
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I think you might be over-thinking her popularity with these points. Her show broke a record for a debut on the TLC network. She got about 5 million viewers. In a country of a just over 300 million that means about 1.6% of the people tuned into her show. So it wasn't like she tore the walls down and united the country. Let's wait to see how her ratings go this week too. I bet she is down to around 3.5-4.0 million.
As for Bristol. She is in a perfect storm. She has the conservatives voting for her and there is a segment of the population who has adopted her as the little train that could and vote for her as well. But she is also getting a lot of help of from the Vote for the worst crew. If you aren't familiar with these people, they pick contestants on reality shows like dancing with the stars and american idol and they vote for the worst one so that they stick around as long as possible and make a mockery of the show. A few seasons back they got on american idol into the top 6-8. They currently have a horrible singer in the top 8 on the British X-Factor. Now they are backing Bristol so there are a lot of people who don't even watch the show who call in or go to the website and vote for her because they think it is funny.