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Originally Posted by David Holmberg

Dennis, a friend that is there just texted me and said. "When they announced her name there was Boo's everywhere, then the music came on louder and there were cheers playing over the speakers". There were a few yelling for her, but the majority were against her.

Its just like WWE, you have to have the bad guys (Busch brothers), good guys (Johnson, Edwards) and a damsel in distress...

Wow, that about sums it up. Like politics, these people (NASCAR) can fabricate any outcome, change votes, whatever it takes, because the ends justifies the means. With Danica in it, NASCAR stands to sell millions of dollars of merchandise, there will be heavy promotion on all the websites, and of course NASCAR-paid bloggers, so it's a win-win for them.

I have a relative that only casually follows auto racing. In other words, he gets the ESPN updates, reads slanted Danica hype, has never watched a race in his life, etc. I reminded him that she's only won 1 race, to which he said that was wrong, she's won "at least 4", and that "she's a groundbreaker, there's never been another female in NASCAR."

And that, my friends, is from the type of person that thinks some karaoke singer who makes it to the final rounds of American Idol is just as good as Led Zeppelin, because the American Idol contestant sold more records.

Welcome to America.