An inevitable march to the final two?

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I'm guilty of that too. Care to elaborate on what you mean by it teaching you the "psychology of voting?" I'm actually curious about this.

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I voted for Taylor in the final last year. My take on what the poster might mean-- it is so &*%T!@^!@^& annoying to repeatedly dial up and get a busy signal 80-90% of the time that you need to be incredibly commited to get in more than a few votes. The voting population includes some casual viewers voting for the best performer this week, or someone who just tuned into see the final and votes for their favorite, or someone who was a big fan of Lakisha and decides to vote for Melinda after Lakisha is eliminated. But the vast majority of the votes are probably coming from total psycho fans willing to madly push redial for a full two hours, or equally rabid tech-savvy fans who are able to pump in massive numbers of text votes (or possibly autodial with DialIdol).