Interesting New HCD Research Numbers

The latest HCD Research mediacurves.com results were just e-mailed to me and I found the results quite interesting. As expected Lee and Mike both had large increases in the percentage of votes after last night, but Crystal actually received a spike as well, even after her not so positive reviews last night. The only contestants whose percentages went down were Casey and Aaron. If we compare these results to last weeks poll results we can see the actual trends better. Siobhan received 16.5% of the vote last week from a sample of 3,151 respondents which means 520 votes. This week there were 3,475 respondents which means not only are there 324 more votes, but Siobhan's 500+ votes must go to someone else as well.

1) Crystal: 35.2% of 3151 = 1109 last week, 42.2% of 3475 = 1466 this week (357 more)
2) Lee: 12.3% of 3151 = 387 last week, 22.0% of 3475 =  764 this week (377 more)
3) Mike: 10.4% of 3151 = 327 last week, 14.3% of 3475 = 496 this week (169 more)
4) Casey: 17.4% of 3151 = 548 last week, 13.8% or 3475 = 479 this week (69 less)
5) Aaron: 8.3% of 3151 = 261 last week, 7.8% of 3475 = 271 this week (10 more)

So even though Aaron's percentage went down this week, since there are more voters and less contestants, his actual number of votes actually increased slightly. And even though Lee is considered the big gainer this week, according to the HCD Research poll he actually only gained slightly more votes than Crystal did. And Crystal continues to poll higher than any other two contestants combined. Once again her "poor" performance this week has not hurt either her numeric lead here, nor her lead in total DialIdol raw votes.