alright... back to reality. ruben won the title of american idol. clay's second, kimberley's third. 24 million votes, 0.56 percentage point difference, 134400 votes. it's mere negligible. it's like statistical discrepancy. i've seen many posts on the forums. well... 24million votes, 3 hours, 8 million votes entering the two lines per hour. 133million calls per minute, about 1 million votes per line per second. can see where i'm driving at? the lines are bound to be too busy, there are so many people who are voting at the same time, so many more whose votes would matter. why are those producers so stupid? why couldn't they just open another line for each contestant so people who wanted to vote could actually vote? they used to be able to get in about 200 votes per person per night, now they can hardly get in even two digit number of votes. 20 million votes used to be distributed among 5 lines, now it's only two. it is amazing why this people didn't think of any way to get around the problem of busy signals. wouldn't they have wanted to say tht more than 24 million votes? text messaging hardly even got in. there were so many problems. you might think i'm driving at some conspiracy theory that will eventually conclude clay didn't win the title because the producers tried to hinder his votes from entering. rubbish. i don't think the producers will do something that idiotic so as to mess with the votes. but they definitely tried to manipulate the votes. they gave ruben so much more. it's written everywhere, i don't feel like going into that. they want ruben to win, bt they're unwilling to let go of clay. he's like a money spinning machine, they're gonna milk him for as much money as they can. they're letting clay and ruben's albums get released on the same time. i hope the clay fans would sweep the shelves and clean all the stock of clay's cds. i want a landslide defeat by clay over ruben then. never underestimate the spending power of women. AND teenagers. if clay's album is available here, i'd buy it too. not just bcs i love him, but also i want to show them ruben's not the actual winner here. i know i'll be falling directly into the producers trap, but there's no way out, none at all. bt for ruben, they have all those older fans, those who are working, they definitely can buy his albums. celebrites love him too, and they'll harp on some ace singer who owns his cd, and he's so honoured... whatever... by the way, i'm sort of amused... imagine what the media is in for!!! hahaha... we all know ruben answers the questions posed to him in words less than a 2 digit figure. or putting it another way, his answers are always shorter than the questions. imagine an interview with him... he's like always half asleep, and according to some site, "the only time the big lug truly comes alive is when he and his little buddy are goofing around"... haha, he needs clay around him... otherwise he hardly even moves... i don't feel like saying anything... i'm tired, and pissed by the stupid producers. but i'm fine with ruben. i'm ok with him. and i love clay. posted by Yee 12:00 AM . . .