I can remember back to Carrie Underwood's season and this board would be trying to bury her. Yet when X-Factor US tried showing the vote totals, someone asked Nygel (exec producer) of the old show why they didn't do that? He replied because it would kill the show and give Carrie by example. He said she won every week by a huge margin and no one else had a chance.
Even when you read the posts on tonight, they are all over the place. Some love Cade, some don't. Some like Gaby, some don't. I have yet to read a negative post on Maddie so maybe that's a clue how popular she is.
My favs have been Gaby, Cade, Maddie and Michael. Catie is growing on me, she has a nice voice. I am a more main stream radio guy (pop and country) so I doubt I'd ever hear a song of Maddie's on the radio. The quirks of Michael and Catie to me say they don't have the total package. I hope all of them have a good career in music should they chose, but for national superstar, I can only see Gabby or Cade pulling that off.