I don’t really care for polls either. I could make the same argument that Neal is more popular judging by the number of fans he has on any particular forum. On this forum, the IMDb boards and Fan Forum, Neal is quite popular. In fact, any forum that has a strong Rumpel fanbase also tends to have a strong Neal/Bae fanbase as well.
And the problem with polls is that in most, the site gives you the option of voting as many times as you want. There have been polls where I’ve voted for a particular character or couple more than 50 times. 😆
It is a shame they can’t put up some kind of guard rails that make people only vote once. You’re right about that. If you can vote as many times as you want, you can’t really see the real results. That’s why the twitter search is more objective.