Why are more people voting for American idol than for presidential election?
411062
I don't think that it is more people, it is people voting more than once.  In an election, you only get one vote in American Idol you can vote as many times as you can.
635170
Well, Kelly Clarkson is known mainly because of the music type she caters to. Her pop songs are just radio fodder, bubblegum enough for their listening audience. Country fans will swear by Kerry Underwood, so she remains popular in that niche, too. \n\nThe main problem (or good thing, as some might see it) is that American Idol is just a fad. Winners are mainly forgotten as soon as a new season starts. Comparing apples to oranges with legitimate bands and singers against American Idol winners is no way to go about this, either. Most real music buffs don't put American Idol singers on the same level as other artists, anyways.
784759
No, we are not voting for president. The president's term is 4 years, and the last presidential election was in 2004. (That's why this election is called a mid-term election, being halfway into the current president's current term.)\n\nTerms for members of the House of Representatives are 2 years, so all members are up for re-election every two years.\n\nOne third of all Senators are also up for re-election every two terms (that way, no more than 1/3 are new in any given election year).\n\nThe mid-term elections are also when governors are up for election (they have 4 year terms, too).\n\nSimilarly, members of the various state legislatures are up for re-election, as are a lot of even more local candidates, such as school boards, judges (in some states), county supervisors (in some states), and others.\n\nAlso, some states have propositions, which is to say laws that are directly voted on by the electorate.\n\nThe reason this election is being seen as being about Bush is that party politics tends to rule our elections. There's a good chance that the president's party (Republicans) will lose the control they've had over Congress. If Democrats take control of Congress, they may be able to stop Bush from continuing at least some of his policies.\n\nThey probably won't be able to do much good, since Bush would veto any good they try to do, and they won't have enough votes to over-ride his vetoes.\n\nBut at least Bush will no longer have a blank check, as it were, to commit every atrocity that comes into his empty skull; he will, for a change, have to deal with people who disagree with him.
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people do every time they go to vote,  it appears that the majority of people like the government doing what they are doing since they vote these people in.\n\nWhy people like Ted kennedy can get elected by the way he behaves is beyond me, but people vote him in time and time again
1111967
Did you know that the last two Presidential elections were won by 30% of voters for 22% turnout?\n\ndon't tell me they can't vote to better their country.
160303
Well, a lot of americans are apathetic or just uninformed. Others believe there vote doesn't really count and to some extent i am inclined to agree with them on that point. Still, others feel that things in america are basically going well and a lot of people don't really feel the need to be politically active. Its a natural consequence of a relaxed democracy. You could almost consider it a good thing in a way that people don't care because it means they're happy. Or for a more cynical view: they're just stupid and ignorant. There are probably countless explanations for this question, but good question nonetheless.
701596
its more interesting and we know what we see is what we're getting. if they sound bad singing we know they are not good singers. however if they sound good singing, hey we have ourselves a winner!! that's for any tv surveys, especially the nfl. we are voting because of what they have already shown us they can do, and not having to just go on their word of what they can or will do for us. its easy to vote for those that have shown action instead of just talk.
1065333
You are correct.  Many people are voting against someone rather than voting for someone.  IMHO, that is worse than not voting at all.  The "against" people are actually cancelling out the vote of someone believing in the issues.  In the last pres. election, I would ask people "who are you favoring and why?"  I didn't persuade to Dem or Rep.  But many people would say "Kerry, because I hate W. this or that, yadda, yadda."  Bill Clinton addressed a democratic convention of some sort and told them that the democratic party needs to be a party for something, not against something.  Unfortately, both parties have drifted even farther away from the center.  The right has gone too far right and the left has gone too far left.  The overall is still probably about center, but the standard devation is so huge that people spend more time arguing about something than acutally doing anything.
257281
I'm American and I seriously still don't understand why so many people voted for him!
603969
Sorry, I didn't know the "world" voted for American Idol. It's the USA only. Sad this country cares more about the next idol than the next president figuring more people vote for American Idol that the US presidential election.
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Here's the total number of votes in the last election for the president...122,293,547\nThe total number of Idol votes each week is about 40 million
613574
My guess is that the American Idol voting system was largely to blame.  Somebody calling for Chris couldn't do so if they line was busy.  This is probably the biggest flaw in the voting system and has probably been responsible on more than one occassion for the elimination of good singers.  Apparently if you're on Idol, you not only have to be a good singer, you have to hope that your fans can actually have a chance to vote :S.
1155110
Americans don't really seem to care and believe that their one vote won't matter but if you think about it that is what about half the population thinks. A thing you might want to think of too is if we get accurate results when we vote???
1010367
Well, more republicans voted than democrats in the last election, doesn't necessarily mean there are more.  Just more that actually care about who is in office.
1089093
Thanks for the question. I think it is sad how few people vote in every election. People argue passionately but then never vote in elections.\n\nGet registered and vote!! It is your duty as an American citizen.
779223
That is honestly a good question!! \n\nYour very correct in your statement. Americans are too lazy to go vote!! Hopefully all of America has learned the lesson of staying home on election day. \n\nBecause when less than half of ALL Americans show up to vote, we get a President like George W. Bush and a congress like the congress we have....and so on.... \n\nAnd we can't make this mistake ever again!!\n\nWhat we as a country have become, we are not about, and have never been about..
541689
The people didn't choose Bush. The damn election was rigged! (I would have voted for him anyway because I thought he would do better for America than Kerry. So I was wrong.)