US idol more popular than the president
I suppose we deserve headlines like these from Europeans. I mean:
Lordi? Ring any bells? It doesn't help that Helmut was all cheeky about the whole Eurovision thing, what with his European readership mysteriously skyrocketing at the same time. This idol stuff is just what they've been waiting for. From
The Scotsman.com, linked above:
RONALD Reagan set a record when he received 54.5 million votes to claim the United States presidency in 1984. In 2004, George Bush broke it with nearly 62 million under his belt.
But in a new indicator of just how seriously America takes its elections - or, perhaps, how seriously it takes the post of president - a grey-haired soul singer from Alabama has eclipsed both by scooping an unprecedented 63.4 million votes to claim a far loftier title: the new American Idol.
I was going to point out that perhaps the rules for voting for the president and for American Idol surely explain some of the difference, here. But it's not like anybody can understand the American presidential election, anyway, which is pretty sophistimicated.
But then again:
. . . Fox television has defended the process as "the most sophisticated voting system in existence".
In
existence. Who's for letting Fox declare the winner of the next president? That'd be novel, eh?
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