http://www.thedailypunt.com/forum/td...cs-thread.html
Thats the politics thread if you wanna see who tends to vote for who.
http://www.thedailypunt.com/forum/td...tatistics.html
Some stats there.
I also did a thread last year which still makes sense in my head - in that last year there was only really one semi decent Skando entry in Sweden. There were quite a few decent Eastern European entries - Bulgaria, Serbia, Bosnia all threats - and so the logic was that if geographical voting does exist, then having lots of decent songs down in Eastern Europe would split the Eastern Europe block vote, and only one decent song in Skadi land would concentrate the Skando vote, and make it all the stronger.
It never quite happened like that and I can only think it was down to the Swedish song.
Would also say its pretty important to judge every songg on its merits rather than try and fit it to certain 'Eurovision criteria.' Before last year it was widely thought that if your song wasnt in English you wouldn't do well...infact 3 of my main pointers before last year were non ballads, in english, and some sort of stage act. Serbia was a serbian ballad with no costumes and no act...and I think it represents another shift of traditional Eurovision values with the increasing influence of Eastern European tastes.