I was browsing through the picks and one question caught my attention the most, it was Ratdog's question: Do you think the voting is fixed or based on country's neighbours and politics?
I personally do believe that the neighboring countries vote for each other, however I think that it is inevitable for this to happen, not only because of language similarities. Its the culture in total that matters. For example, if you look at the scandinavian countries who vote for each other. They all have similar sounding languages which originated from the same branch. Also, generally speaking they seem to be interested in the same type of music: either hard rock, house/dance or swingy rock/pop. Sweden last year was represented by The Ark with their song The Worrying Kind which was in style similar to this year's song All Night Long by Simon Mathew, representing Denmark. Therefore it is unequivocal that countries with similar historical and cultural background will vote for each other. Scandinavia was one example, the Balkan countries are another.
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