more people voted for american idol than the presidential election - GoFuckYourself.com

BlackCrayon · 05-25-2006, 07:41 AM

people have their priorities up their asses.

RayBonga · 05-25-2006, 07:45 AM

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

Now, that would be democracy.

xclusive · 05-25-2006, 07:56 AM

they were both rigged so the votes shouldn't matter

sickkittens · 05-25-2006, 07:57 AM

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

Pure Evil · 05-25-2006, 08:01 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, 08:08 AM

thats fucking nuts..

atom · 05-25-2006, 08:19 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, 08:20 AM

that screams pathetic

baddog · 05-25-2006, 08:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Phoenix

that screams pathetic

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

baddog · 05-25-2006, 08:23 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, 08:46 AM

the talk is useless

Dollarmansteve · 05-25-2006, 09:17 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, 09:19 AM

Quote:

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, 10:09 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, 10:11 AM

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

Dollarmansteve · 05-25-2006, 10:18 AM

Quote:

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, 10:49 AM

maybe we should vote for presidents by phone or sms ?

Michael O · 05-25-2006, 11:12 AM

Quote:

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, 11:30 AM

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

BigCashCrew · 05-25-2006, 11:55 AM

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

I LOVE Little Brown Asses · 05-25-2006, 11:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by distingo

maybe we should vote for presidents by phone or sms ?

NOW we're talking!

iWeb_Iya · 05-25-2006, 06:55 PM

Quote:

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, 07:05 PM

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

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05-25-2006, 09:17 AM	#12
Dollarmansteve Confirmed User Join Date: May 2005 Location: T.O. Posts: 2,849	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 __________________ I died.

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05-25-2006, 11:55 AM	#20
BigCashCrew Registered User Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,570	Each person can vote up to 10 times. This is not 60mil unique votes.

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