Ok about the differnece between the sakurai's journal that my friend had posted and the other one about the poll's...I Might as well just give the quote.
Quote fatmanonice"It's the same thing except I think they got some of them wrong. For example, I have proof that Geno was mentioned 5 times and I know that Isaac was not mentioned twice. He and Felix were only mentioned once BUT, in the entry asking for the Advance Wars infantry men, the person asks for "a Golden Sun character" but doesn't specify who. Still, we had most of the same people and they ended up with 22 characters and I ended up with 21. The ones that I read and they apparently missed were Ray 01, Black Shadow, Diddy and Dixie as a team, and the Balloon Fighter and the ones I apparently missed were WW Link (who I know was only mentioned once because the entry refered to him as "cat eyed Link"), Animal Crosser (I only remember him being mentioned once), Isaac (already explained), Ouendan (I remember this one because it was on the same page as Geno's first mention), and Oguma (a ton of Fire Emblem characters were mentioned but I think they mixed him up with Sigurd). I also noticed that they didn't talk about the entries that mentioned more then one character in them like the infamous one that suggested Link's Uncle, Bow-Wow (a chain chomp in Link's Awakening), and the Blue Virus from Dr. Mario."
WOW That was long , Anyhow i think that this shows that claus was mentioned 4 times in the journal , I'll still ask him about lucas however (He says teh interview is what helped in a way with his chances

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Anyhow Claus for brawl ^_^.