Gotta agree. Although it did better than my other offerings, one of my reviews was good stuff (if I do say so myself) and it still only got (literally) a handful of votes.
Conan and especially C.L. are very liberal voters so their absence makes a big difference, and this round also didn't even get onto the second page before the ever-pointless V&V posts poured in. I still think that voting figures were below what they should have been, though.