Frank Kogan

Are you assuming that the readers you're challenging are the same readers that he is throwing bouquets at?

Good question. But the poll and his essay were in the Nashville Scene, which is an altweekly (the guys who bought the Voice from Stern and then sold out to the New Times bozos), which presumably has a readership that prides itself on being alt, hence would lean more towards Miranda than Carrie. And the critics in the country critics poll definitely lean far more alt than the mainstream country listeners do.

Also, Geoff cheated in his essay by saying that "Before He Cheats" finished number thirteen in 2007 while neglecting to say that "Before He Cheats" had finished fifth in 2006 (and would have finished higher still in 2007 if he'd combined votes over years the way that Pazz & Jop does), which doesn't put her poll numbers up there with Miranda's but doesn't make her as unliked by critics as he thinks.