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		<title>By: Brad King</title>
		<link>http://www.peteholiday.com/2007/06/20/hot-blogger-fiasco/comment-page-1#comment-10441</link>
		<dc:creator>Brad King</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;You have no clue what you are talking about and I hope you do get rid of this post because you have no credibility. Don&#039;t be jealous because Matt Jones is on ESPN radio, you are a talentless writer that can&#039;t hack it in the mainstream.  Not only that, you lie about the truth.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I can just see you looking back at UK records, trying to find something to get UK on...Well, good luck with that buddy, you will always lose. You aren&#039;t the first, certainly wont be the last, and all others failed too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You will always lose.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You have no clue what you are talking about and I hope you do get rid of this post because you have no credibility. Don&#8217;t be jealous because Matt Jones is on ESPN radio, you are a talentless writer that can&#8217;t hack it in the mainstream.  Not only that, you lie about the truth.</p>
<p>I can just see you looking back at UK records, trying to find something to get UK on&#8230;Well, good luck with that buddy, you will always lose. You aren&#8217;t the first, certainly wont be the last, and all others failed too.</p>
<p>You will always lose.</p>
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		<title>By: Brad King</title>
		<link>http://www.peteholiday.com/2007/06/20/hot-blogger-fiasco/comment-page-1#comment-10440</link>
		<dc:creator>Brad King</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Yet, another example of UK envy.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>By: BIGBLUEinFL</title>
		<link>http://www.peteholiday.com/2007/06/20/hot-blogger-fiasco/comment-page-1#comment-10439</link>
		<dc:creator>BIGBLUEinFL</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Peter-&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your ability to decipher reality is as mutated as your apples to oranges comparison of basketball to football crowds.  To make that analogy shows how thin crust of a sports perspective you have to depend on for you material.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Here are factors you don&#039;t present because you are on the outside looking in:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Matt Jones has appeared on the scene, out of the UK faithful woodwork, to supply KY Wildcat fans with better basketball recruiting updates and info than any other media outlet to date (that includes Rivals, Scouts, UKAthletics.com, ESPN, or Lexington Herald Leader).  With multiple updates per day on his blog combined with an internet streaming radio show each weekday from 3-7, he has changed the game in media coverage of Kentucky Basketball news.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After a trying last couple of years with Tubby &quot;comfortable&quot; Smith, Matt saw an opening in providing something that simply no one else was offering: daily coverage of the after hours work of our newest coach (Billy Gillispie).  It has been incredible timing on Matt&#039;s part to be the premier source of these off season events with KY Basketball, as the legion of Kentucky fans are bouncing off the walls with what has been done just in the first couple of months, and Matt&#039;s site as the source with the scoup is blowing up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Matt has provided this FREE of charge.  WE LOVE THIS GUY!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Matt has struck the iron while its hot with a clever dish of goodness... and when he asks in his blog for a vote against others in a blog competition, WE GIVE HIM OUR SUPPORT!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Most of those who go to his blog, are there for the UK recruiting news.  Your reference to a youtube post as proof his following is hollow, shows how subjectively you looked at the post.  Matt always adds off the path tidbits to the beef of his blog.  Your just a gimp with nothing to talk about, and bad analysis to boot.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You don&#039;t know, as your on the outside looking in.  KY fans know... and we&#039;re laughing at your multiple choice style attempts of solving the great Matt Jones mystery (How does he do it? ROFL)  All your assumptions, along with all the other Geraldo Riveras out there with orphaned blogs, are as flawed as your methods of not knowing when to read the lines, or when to read between them.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Just chalk it up to inexperience and go brush your teeth (BTW.. thats not an insult, it&#039;s just advice).  You might also some day decide to provide a worthy product to the internet, instead of gambling your entire articles foundation on an assumption.  I wonder if having your credibility snapped on your own blog is as humiliating as having the entire state of Kentucky laugh at your meritless effort.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Go Big Blue!&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peter-</p>
<p>Your ability to decipher reality is as mutated as your apples to oranges comparison of basketball to football crowds.  To make that analogy shows how thin crust of a sports perspective you have to depend on for you material.</p>
<p>Here are factors you don&#8217;t present because you are on the outside looking in:</p>
<p>Matt Jones has appeared on the scene, out of the UK faithful woodwork, to supply KY Wildcat fans with better basketball recruiting updates and info than any other media outlet to date (that includes Rivals, Scouts, UKAthletics.com, ESPN, or Lexington Herald Leader).  With multiple updates per day on his blog combined with an internet streaming radio show each weekday from 3-7, he has changed the game in media coverage of Kentucky Basketball news.</p>
<p>After a trying last couple of years with Tubby &#8220;comfortable&#8221; Smith, Matt saw an opening in providing something that simply no one else was offering: daily coverage of the after hours work of our newest coach (Billy Gillispie).  It has been incredible timing on Matt&#8217;s part to be the premier source of these off season events with KY Basketball, as the legion of Kentucky fans are bouncing off the walls with what has been done just in the first couple of months, and Matt&#8217;s site as the source with the scoup is blowing up.</p>
<p>Matt has provided this FREE of charge.  WE LOVE THIS GUY!</p>
<p>Matt has struck the iron while its hot with a clever dish of goodness&#8230; and when he asks in his blog for a vote against others in a blog competition, WE GIVE HIM OUR SUPPORT!</p>
<p>Most of those who go to his blog, are there for the UK recruiting news.  Your reference to a youtube post as proof his following is hollow, shows how subjectively you looked at the post.  Matt always adds off the path tidbits to the beef of his blog.  Your just a gimp with nothing to talk about, and bad analysis to boot.</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t know, as your on the outside looking in.  KY fans know&#8230; and we&#8217;re laughing at your multiple choice style attempts of solving the great Matt Jones mystery (How does he do it? ROFL)  All your assumptions, along with all the other Geraldo Riveras out there with orphaned blogs, are as flawed as your methods of not knowing when to read the lines, or when to read between them.</p>
<p>Just chalk it up to inexperience and go brush your teeth (BTW.. thats not an insult, it&#8217;s just advice).  You might also some day decide to provide a worthy product to the internet, instead of gambling your entire articles foundation on an assumption.  I wonder if having your credibility snapped on your own blog is as humiliating as having the entire state of Kentucky laugh at your meritless effort.</p>
<p>Go Big Blue!</p>
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		<title>By: JSexton</title>
		<link>http://www.peteholiday.com/2007/06/20/hot-blogger-fiasco/comment-page-1#comment-10435</link>
		<dc:creator>JSexton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The way I seeit is This site sucks like donkey dic$#@! Yes Pete you are gay.Dont tell the nation.You got a problem with UK!You and them Ladies Suck.Can&#039;t deny that we are the best and your school sucks.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The way I seeit is This site sucks like donkey dic$#@! Yes Pete you are gay.Dont tell the nation.You got a problem with UK!You and them Ladies Suck.Can&#8217;t deny that we are the best and your school sucks.</p>
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		<title>By: Pete</title>
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		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:16:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Surprise, surprise... UK fans show up to &quot;defend&quot; themselves and end up looking even worse.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Steve:&lt;/strong&gt; I&#039;m not sure what part of my last post is confusing to you, Steve. The point, again, is that there are lots of possible or plausible explanations for the discrepancy between video click-throughs and voter click-throughs.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&#039;m sure there are some people who only read at work and, therefore, could vote but not watch videos. Anyone who reads at home and at work wouldn&#039;t really fit into that theory.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And since those posts sit on the front page for basically the entirety of the contest, it stands to reason that these &quot;hardcore&quot; fans probably clicked through every day of the contest to vote.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The bottom line is that the UK fans on the &lt;em&gt;Ladies...&lt;/em&gt; page that I&#039;m talking about are the ones who claim that there was NO cheating until after Joe Speaker&#039;s voters started cheating.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;How much cheating there was is basically impossible to determine, and it doesn&#039;t really matter.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That said... it&#039;s interesting to see just how sensitive and insecure UK fans are about their team and state.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ukcatfan88:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;em&gt;&quot;It got silly and stupid then and some people, who have small penises, began to insult the state of Kentucky over this.&quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Actually, if you want to be accurate, the first thing that happened was UK Fans going to &lt;em&gt;Ladies...&lt;/em&gt; and badmouthing them because their buddy was losing.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Surprise, surprise&#8230; UK fans show up to &#8220;defend&#8221; themselves and end up looking even worse.</p>
<p><strong>Steve:</strong> I&#8217;m not sure what part of my last post is confusing to you, Steve. The point, again, is that there are lots of possible or plausible explanations for the discrepancy between video click-throughs and voter click-throughs.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure there are some people who only read at work and, therefore, could vote but not watch videos. Anyone who reads at home and at work wouldn&#8217;t really fit into that theory.</p>
<p>And since those posts sit on the front page for basically the entirety of the contest, it stands to reason that these &#8220;hardcore&#8221; fans probably clicked through every day of the contest to vote.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that the UK fans on the <em>Ladies&#8230;</em> page that I&#8217;m talking about are the ones who claim that there was NO cheating until after Joe Speaker&#8217;s voters started cheating.</p>
<p>How much cheating there was is basically impossible to determine, and it doesn&#8217;t really matter.</p>
<p>That said&#8230; it&#8217;s interesting to see just how sensitive and insecure UK fans are about their team and state.</p>
<p><strong>ukcatfan88:</strong> <em>&#8220;It got silly and stupid then and some people, who have small penises, began to insult the state of Kentucky over this.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Actually, if you want to be accurate, the first thing that happened was UK Fans going to <em>Ladies&#8230;</em> and badmouthing them because their buddy was losing.</p>
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		<title>By: UNC#1</title>
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		<dc:creator>UNC#1</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;As for stereotypes, women who hang around the Internet project an image that is discussed only on the redneck page.  The image of those who have nothing better to do than blog is, well, I am embarrassed to type such words.  Matt, must be the typical nerd.  He has, so he says, a Duke law degree.  Is there anything more nerdy than a blogging Dukie lawyer?&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As for stereotypes, women who hang around the Internet project an image that is discussed only on the redneck page.  The image of those who have nothing better to do than blog is, well, I am embarrassed to type such words.  Matt, must be the typical nerd.  He has, so he says, a Duke law degree.  Is there anything more nerdy than a blogging Dukie lawyer?</p>
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		<title>By: ukcatfan88</title>
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		<dc:creator>ukcatfan88</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I wish to comment here, as I tend to do when people insult me or my state or my beloved Wildcats. I voted for Matt once. Yes, I attempted to vote twice but the site said I had already voted and wouldn&#039;t allow it. So I got in one vote. Then, later on while checking the totals, I noticed Matt&#039;s opponent&#039;s number climbing exponentially. Really silly numbers, like 100 per second. Others noticed this and not wanting to be cheated out of such a wonderful thing as a &lt;i&gt;hot blogger&lt;/i&gt; contest, they also began to cheat. I checked throughout the evening and went to bed when the numbers crossed the million mark......Enough said right there. It got silly and stupid then and some people, who have small penises, began to insult the state of Kentucky over this. Just like anything, we get the brunt of the blame. A few got pissed and tried to make us look innocent, but no, we cheated and they cheated, but they started it. And yet we are the toothless wonders who latch on to a basketball program because we have nothing else to do? Who the $%^&amp; are the other guy&#039;s fans? Do they have so little to do they have to cheat on a freakin blog contest to win and feel like men?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;BTW, we get 24K for a basketball practice because that&#039;s all the building will hold. Don&#039;t think we couldn&#039;t draw 100,000 if there was room for that many? We could. Trust me. UK led the nation again last year in attendance, beating out programs with larger buildings. We support our teams and support those who are fans, like Matt. If that makes us stupid or petty or whatever, then we are.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Oh, Saban sucks. Can&#039;t wait to see him run off like the whore he is when someone else shakes more money at him......See how it feels?&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish to comment here, as I tend to do when people insult me or my state or my beloved Wildcats. I voted for Matt once. Yes, I attempted to vote twice but the site said I had already voted and wouldn&#8217;t allow it. So I got in one vote. Then, later on while checking the totals, I noticed Matt&#8217;s opponent&#8217;s number climbing exponentially. Really silly numbers, like 100 per second. Others noticed this and not wanting to be cheated out of such a wonderful thing as a <i>hot blogger</i> contest, they also began to cheat. I checked throughout the evening and went to bed when the numbers crossed the million mark&#8230;&#8230;Enough said right there. It got silly and stupid then and some people, who have small penises, began to insult the state of Kentucky over this. Just like anything, we get the brunt of the blame. A few got pissed and tried to make us look innocent, but no, we cheated and they cheated, but they started it. And yet we are the toothless wonders who latch on to a basketball program because we have nothing else to do? Who the $%^&amp; are the other guy&#8217;s fans? Do they have so little to do they have to cheat on a freakin blog contest to win and feel like men?</p>
<p>BTW, we get 24K for a basketball practice because that&#8217;s all the building will hold. Don&#8217;t think we couldn&#8217;t draw 100,000 if there was room for that many? We could. Trust me. UK led the nation again last year in attendance, beating out programs with larger buildings. We support our teams and support those who are fans, like Matt. If that makes us stupid or petty or whatever, then we are.</p>
<p>Oh, Saban sucks. Can&#8217;t wait to see him run off like the whore he is when someone else shakes more money at him&#8230;&#8230;See how it feels?</p>
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		<title>By: heather</title>
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		<dc:creator>heather</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;why is everyone in such a tizzy?  it was funny...it&#039;s over.  as far as the kentucky stereotypes, too bad you stooped to that level as you were the only person that i voted for other than Matt.  I thought that I would support a fellow SEC-er.  I won&#039;t start a Kentucky / Alabama stereotyping match-up, but it&#039;s true about people in glass houses.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>why is everyone in such a tizzy?  it was funny&#8230;it&#8217;s over.  as far as the kentucky stereotypes, too bad you stooped to that level as you were the only person that i voted for other than Matt.  I thought that I would support a fellow SEC-er.  I won&#8217;t start a Kentucky / Alabama stereotyping match-up, but it&#8217;s true about people in glass houses.</p>
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		<title>By: Hi. I'm Scott &#38; I'm a UK fan.... Hi Scott.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Hi. I'm Scott &#38; I'm a UK fan.... Hi Scott.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Did I &quot;ballot stuff&quot;.  Hells yes I did.  When I saw my boy Matt was down, I had to do something (and who am I to disappoint the Ladies?).  Plus, who really gives a shit, it was a &quot;Hot Blogger&quot; contest after all.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ll agree some of our contingent tends to get a bit out of hand when it comes to losing.  You see, until recently, we weren&#039;t used it... we were flashing back to Marches gone by &amp; got a bit overzealous.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Why some of us went after the Ladies is beyond me.  It makes the rest of us look bad.  However, insulting Kentuckians is usually reserved for those of a bit more northerly dispostion.  Those who live in glass houses should throw stones, as it were.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As far as dental plans go, I have an excellent one.  If you would like to join my employ, I could hook you up.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Cheers!&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Did I &#8220;ballot stuff&#8221;.  Hells yes I did.  When I saw my boy Matt was down, I had to do something (and who am I to disappoint the Ladies?).  Plus, who really gives a shit, it was a &#8220;Hot Blogger&#8221; contest after all.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll agree some of our contingent tends to get a bit out of hand when it comes to losing.  You see, until recently, we weren&#8217;t used it&#8230; we were flashing back to Marches gone by &amp; got a bit overzealous.</p>
<p>Why some of us went after the Ladies is beyond me.  It makes the rest of us look bad.  However, insulting Kentuckians is usually reserved for those of a bit more northerly dispostion.  Those who live in glass houses should throw stones, as it were.</p>
<p>As far as dental plans go, I have an excellent one.  If you would like to join my employ, I could hook you up.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
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		<title>By: Steve</title>
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		<dc:creator>Steve</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The last post, probably directed at me, doesn&#039;t make any sense.  You said we could all just agree that there were people that voted more than once in the poll.  I never disagreed with that.  In fact, I said there probably were people that voted more than once.  My point was simply that the website has far more fans than you&#039;re cognizant of, and that most of the votes were from individuals voting only once (meaning multiple voters were an outlier).  In addition, I never said anything about computer glitches or the like being the explanation for the large number of votes (it was the large number of individual voters, anyway).  I simply made the point that the YouTube video statistics were basically irrelevant, because people (myself included) are often wary of watching any videos at work, thus explaining the reason that the video had so few hits relative to the number of votes cast for Matt (a frankly plausible rationale given the lousy comparison you had posited).  I also made the point that, because there were so many individual fans voting relative to Matt&#039;s competitors, resulting in large leads early on for Matt, that none of the voters had any reason to cast multiple votes to help him get to the next round--that was, until it was clear in his final round that he was competing against technical devices rather than individual voters.  Thus, in the early rounds, your theory requires that there were several people sitting around that had nothing better to do than cast multiple votes when doing so (very clearly) wasn&#039;t necessary.  Even for the lazy and idle, watching TV, paint dry, or the like would be more enaging, so that&#039;s unlikely to be the choice that people make.  Coupled with the usual number of hits the site gets, your criticisms of Matt&#039;s vote totals in the early rounds are basically without foundation.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The last post, probably directed at me, doesn&#8217;t make any sense.  You said we could all just agree that there were people that voted more than once in the poll.  I never disagreed with that.  In fact, I said there probably were people that voted more than once.  My point was simply that the website has far more fans than you&#8217;re cognizant of, and that most of the votes were from individuals voting only once (meaning multiple voters were an outlier).  In addition, I never said anything about computer glitches or the like being the explanation for the large number of votes (it was the large number of individual voters, anyway).  I simply made the point that the YouTube video statistics were basically irrelevant, because people (myself included) are often wary of watching any videos at work, thus explaining the reason that the video had so few hits relative to the number of votes cast for Matt (a frankly plausible rationale given the lousy comparison you had posited).  I also made the point that, because there were so many individual fans voting relative to Matt&#8217;s competitors, resulting in large leads early on for Matt, that none of the voters had any reason to cast multiple votes to help him get to the next round&#8211;that was, until it was clear in his final round that he was competing against technical devices rather than individual voters.  Thus, in the early rounds, your theory requires that there were several people sitting around that had nothing better to do than cast multiple votes when doing so (very clearly) wasn&#8217;t necessary.  Even for the lazy and idle, watching TV, paint dry, or the like would be more enaging, so that&#8217;s unlikely to be the choice that people make.  Coupled with the usual number of hits the site gets, your criticisms of Matt&#8217;s vote totals in the early rounds are basically without foundation.</p>
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