To be honest, I don't know much about this topic. But, for what it's worth, my kids have been claiming for a few weeks that RTE wanted Chris to win. They weren't that keen on James, but when they became convinced that he was getting the short end of the stick from RTE they started rooting for him.
I just thought it was amusing to see that James obviously agrees with my children.
Is it another case of RTE's biased "impartiality"? It's a little known fact that James is a second cousin of Donald Rumsfeld's! Okay, I made that up, but I'd love to think that was true.