part of the reason is because of streemians steemtrail, it seems to vote for him. As I am on it and see me voting for him every once in a while.
Edit: I have just now left the trail as I would like to have more power to know that my vote is going to something that I support! Even though I see that he has brought a lot of users to steemit, I feel his lack of responses on his post are showing that he does not care about the platform and the users on it.