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AI Poll final results, AOL users got it even more wrong
by Jason Hughes, posted Mar 14th 2008 8:09AM
Well, the final results are in from AOL's Idol Poll, running from the end of the competition on Tuesday to the "Results Show" on Wednesday. While there's not a great deal of deviation from the preliminary results we reported on Wednesday, it's interesting that David Hernandez actually went up slightly in their rankings, from 9th to 8th, before ultimately getting eliminated. They were way off on this one. What's the margin of error, I wonder.The only other change of any significance was Carly dropping from the #2 slot all the way down to #4, allowing David Cook and Brooke to each move up a slot. This I can understand as both of them had really good nights. But what's up with all the Syesha haters? The final tally is "after the break."
Either AOL's users don't use the phone or the Idol voters aren't AOL users. Either way these two large groups weren't on the same page at all. In fact, our own TV Squad readers were more in synch with the viewing public. Of course, you have to factor in the fact that the AOL poll allows multiple voting for the same person, actually just like the show. But that means that somebody with little to no life could have clicked for David Hernandez 6,000 times over that 24 hour timespan if they wanted to. Or build a little machine to do it for them.
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#1 - David A. (18.0%)
#2 - David C. (13.4%)
#3 - Brooke (13.4%)
#4 - Carly (13.0%)
#5 - Jason (8.1%)
#6 - Michael (6.8%)
#7 - Amanda (5.7%)
#8 - David H. (5.6%)
#9 - Chikezie (5.1%)
#10 - Ramiele (3.8%)
#11 - Kristy (3.8%)
#12 - Syesha (3.4%)
TV SQUAD IDOL POLL - FINAL RESULTS
#1 - Brooke (25.9%)
#2 - David C. (24.3%)
#3 - Chikezie (16.3%)
#4 - Carly (12.1%)
#5 - Jason (6.1%)
#6 - David A. (3.9%)
#7 - Ramiele (3.4%)
#8 - Michael (2.5%)
#9 - Amanda (2.4%)
#10 - Kristy (1.7%)
#11 - David H. (0.9%)
#12 - Syesha (0.4%)
So TV Squad readers got the bottom three right, but still blew it because Syesha was actually ranked tenth. AOL's users also put Syesha at the bottom, but had both Ramiele and Chikezie below David H. Chikezie came in third for TV Squad. Oh, and that first place finish for David A. via AOL is a much more plausible sixth place finish with TV Squad readers.
What is up with this consensus of Syesha hating? In general, AOL's results are much more balanced than the extremes seen on the TV Squad poll, but both agree that Syesha was the least liked of the night? She did wind up in the bottom three, but both David H. and Kristy pulled in fewer votes than her. Maybe online folks just don't like her.
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