[CMoran325]

Makes the case for voting for Jennifer -- even if you love Bristol.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Makes the case for voting for Jennifer

No, it makes the case for voting for whomever you prefer to win — but voting only ONCE.

Isn’t that what voting should be all about?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

As yourself "what would Obama do?" and do the opposite.

[xzins]

I can’t believe there are that many people who will establish dozens of email addresses so they can vote multiple times over as unimportant a thing as a tv game show.

It would take an enormous amount of time. It simply wouldn’t be worth it.

Maybe there a few such nuts out there, but I’m betting there aren’t that many at all.

[Slyfox]

The host of the show, Tom Bergeron, said after Brandy lost her chance to win, "This is why you need to vote." As if he were begging for more "real" people to vote. Or something like that.

I never vote. I just like the dancing. But, I am concerned about the backlash against Bristol.

[GOPJ]

Liberals care about voter fraud when it “might” be happening with a TV show. In real life situations they send out black panther goons... and pretend it’s nothing.

[FrankR]

Again...bonified Ballroom dancing contests are not left up to the whims of the general public.

The mere establishment of SEPARATE phone lines for each contestant, with a simultaneous multiple voting capability over other carriers like internet and texting, there is no way that DWTS could be classified as anything other than a "popularity" contest.

The judges are there for show, hoping to influence call-ins in their direction of preference, but in the end, it's the call-ins that decide it. Given that millions of voters are NOT professional ballroom dancing judges, all that's left is popularity.

Secondly, if it was just a "dancing contest", then all of the contestants would be professional ballroom dancers...but they are not. Professional dancers team up with a star/celbrity; the star/celebrity aspect is why people watch - normally pure ballroom dancing doesn't commandere much of an audience on national TV.

It's all about voting for a star...a personality; watching them dance is the entertainment, and the backstage footage is the drama.

I don't know what will happen tonight, but there is probably some sort of "fix" in so that Bristol will not get the final championship. If she does, I'm sure that Jennifer Gray, the Judges, and a few million liberals' heads will expode in unison, and the liberal press will have something else to piss and moan about.

[ssaftler]

The question I posed to my wife yesterday as we were discussing this issue was this:

“If it were Chelsea Clinton who was getting this apparently unnecessary push instead of Bristol Palin, would the media be so up in arms?”

As non-political as my wife is, even she had to admit that the hoo-hah is almost entirely driven by the who and not the what of the situation.