[pissant]

This gal is growing on me...

[randog]

Yeah, I got the McPheever, too...8P

I don't care if she wins, just lemme know when her Playboy spread comes out!

[isthisnickcool]

When there were ten finalists I predicted that it would come down to McPhee and Hicks. I absolutely loved McPhee's version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. It was stunning. But it's the only stunning thing she has done so far. She will not beat Hicks. His following was/is too diverse and too large for her or anyone else to overcome. Hicks owns the American Idol message board and has posting numbers that equal about two thirds of the entire board for all the people in the competition. That's astounding and interpolates in to huge numbers when it comes to people following him.

No matter what happens several of the people on the show this year will do very well. Chris Daughtry will do especially well because he has the perfect commercial rock voice. Pickler will likely do some acting and Paris Bennette and Mandisa should be OK.

Hicks has a gift for entertainment and is going to be very interesting to watch.

Nice thread you have here. But it could use a little more cow bell.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

I'll take anyone but McPhee. She just doesn't do it for me at all!!!!!! Chris should have won with Elliot being the runner-up (out of the top 4), but no dice. So I guess I'm for Taylor now.

[Integrityrocks]

I was a Paris fan, but now I'm voting for MacPhee. She's really got lungs; not to mention other assets; the songs just haven't been the best picks for her, but a good agent will fix that.

[Bones75]

I have to say I am extremely dissapointed that Alliot goes while Kathrine stays. After her last three weeks, she has absolutely no business on the show anymore.

Watching super talented people get voted off week after week and her still there trashes my faith in the general public more and more.

[proudofthesouth]

Hicks is an all round entertainer and will be around for decades to come. McPhee will fade fast. She doesn't have enough talent to substain a long career.

[Mike Darancette]

Without naming names, Seacrest said the other singers racked up 33.26 and 33.68 percent of the votes.

What are the odds that these votes are so close?

I'll tell you it's 100%. I believe that all of the call trunks used for voting are saturated with the maximum number of votes being recorded on each line. Given those conditions the winner is always going to be a close coin toss. Hopefully for the final they will get more trunks.