Democrat Clay Aiken, famed American Idol runner-up, unable to unseat Republican Rep. Rennee Ellmers

[tclambert]

Source: NBC News

Democrat Clay Aiken, famed American Idol runner-up, unable to unseat Republican Rep. Rennee Ellmers in North Carolina's 2nd district, @NBCNews projects

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[TeeYiYi]

1. I like Clay Aiken...

I hope he stays with politics and tries again.

TYY

[Gore1FL]

5. and not run from himself. n/t

[zazen]

2. I confidently estimate that over 14,000 college dem votes were actively suppressed

Don't know the margin of error here, but voting by NC college dems (and that district is gerrymandered over several campuses) was deliberately thwarted by moving voting sites off campus and sowing confusion about where students could legally vote.

Officials "elected" through such unconstitutionality have no authority or legality to me, and those who manipulated laws to put them there are criminals.

And that idiot kept calling him an "entertainer" during the debate where he wiped the floor with her. I mourn for my state and my country.

[mnhtnbb]

3. She's a nitwit. This is thanks to the gerrymandering that came out of 2010.

He would have busted his butt for Veterans and education.

What a loss.

This is very discouraging.

[CBHagman]

4. Oy, another two years of that annoying woman.

She was part of that clutch of GOP House members who donned white lab coats to cry crocodile tears for medical research during the government shutdown in 2013.

[democatman]

6. The American Idol and Politics kind of the same thing?.

Well it is kind of like the same kind of deal or thing, all about appearance and sounding good, and things of that nature, so going from the american idol singing contest, then into politics, could be a kind of natural progression, of course for the more mature singer.

though it might look strange to some, even former bodybuilder and actor arnold schwarzenegger did the same move and it worked well for him.

american idol is a bit like politics winning votes from a audience so can see how it could work out well if he sticks at it.

[democatman]

7. american idol 2016 auditions will be the last ever show is cancelled

so the american idol 2016 auditions will be the last ever show and after that the american idol is cancelled, been a bad few years for these big talent contests, but i guess they only ever had so much shelf life and then they would all start getting old and losing ratings, and that is the main thing with television networks, the ratings.

why are ratings so important to a television company like fox?, because if no one is watching anymore, then they are basically sending out a signal and broadcasting to no one, so they might as well not bother, so when a show as big as american idol starts losing its popularity and dropping ratings like it has there is only one thing that will happen and that is for the tv network to cancel the show, and look to replace it with something new/and/or more popular, and that is why the american idol 2015 basically got cancelled, with fox deciding to do oe last "farewell" season of american idol in 2016.

the auditions for the farewell season of american idol are taking place now and over the next few months so try out if you ever thought about doing them but was not sure this is the last ever season auditions for american idol.

http://theamericanidol2015.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/american-idol-auditions-20152016.html