Now that we can vote online, I am voting tactically but also saving enough votes for a favourite.
so, this week I voted for:
Abbey 1
Ashley 1
Ben 1
and Sophie 2
(Sophie 2 votes, because I want her to win - although she had better pick up a bit...! And the others because I want them to stay a bit longer)
Had I bothered to set up a number of different usernames I could have voted some more, but life's too short....
I have never voted by phone until the semi final and final, and then only for my favourite.
I would say that this new pattern (and those of others mentioned here) may be fairly typical of DS voters.
However, I'm not sure that applies to the GBP and depends very much on the demographic of strictly watchers.
I wouldn't dismiss the average member of the GBP as not wanting to vote online. In fact, I would say that the online vote is definitely aimed at Facebook, etc, users.
And it certainly doesn't mean that online voters will support more 'suitable' candidates. I would say that, allowing for the dross you can find on social networking sites, the opposite is more likely to be the case.