Hooray, Real Vote Numbers!
A news article this morning states that in a tweet American Idol producer Nigel Lythgoe says that Haley Reinhart received over 25 million of the 95 million votes cast this week. That means Scotty McCreery and Lauren Alaina split the other 70 million votes. The question then becomes how many of the balance were for Scotty and how many were for Lauren. If we look at the busy signal charts from DialIdol, I am guessing Haley and Lauren were pretty close, so we can guess Lauren was maybe at 30 million, leaving about 40 million for Scotty. The big question then becomes who will receive the 25 million votes that were cast for Haley next week. Will they just vanish or will they go to Lauren or Scotty? If Lauren receives a large majority of those votes she may still win this thing, otherwise Scotty has won it pretty easily.