American Idol Finale: Will Diebold Rig It Just For Fun?

On Tuesday night's "American Idol", Season 7's crushingly obvious finalists David Archuleta and David Cook each sing their last three songs, and their fates'll be announced Wednesday. Teen priss David Archuleta and emo showboat David Cook are the most evenly matched final two opponents in ages, making up for an excruciatingly dull competition overall, with Vegas odds mixed.

The Davids' careful, media-savvy personalities have charmed the nation's already-overheated tweeners, but for the rest of us, there's something about the battle between the vaguely wooden, long-assumed champion Archuleta, and the rising star of his more genuine, charismatic upstart rival that's been feeling more than a little, uh, Democratic presidential nomination-ish. Is David Archuleta the Hillary Clinton of "Idol"? And does that make David Cook the Barack Obama? The superdelegate are a non-issue for "Idol," but the similarities are way eerier than we could've ever guessed.

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Comments

[jgalvan]

2 hour show, 1.3 hours worth of commercials, vote was definitely rigged against little David. Last year that I watch this Fox channel bullshite.

[raker]

Gladys Knight looks about 20 years old but doesn't look surgerized. How'd she do that?

[thylacine550]

double edged sword: while I think david cook is more deserving of the win, I also think he might be better off, career-wise, being a runner up (see clay aiken, chris daughtry). the only two idlo winners to have any real success are clarkson and underwood, so it's not like the runners-up are left in the dust necessarily.

if cook wants to maintain his "cred", he may have to hope for 2nd place. on the other hand, that gushing dweeb archuleta will then be judged as "better" than david cook? ack! all that archuleta kid can do is sing power ballads and look really stupid while he's singing. at least david cook has talent, is more than 4 feet tall, and seems to be the whole package as far as star quality.

oh my god. I can't believe I just wrote 2+ paragraphs on this.

[GoodDay]

Fox and Diebold - two disreputable corporations huddle together. Doesn't Murdoch own Fox Entertainment too? I suspect there's just as much right-wing Neo-Con crap on Fox Entertainment as on Fox News.

[GaiasChild]

what a silly story. the davids are not clinton and obama. and besides, if they were, they'd both be obama. did you listen to them sing last night? i had to hear it on you tube coz i was busy watching oregon election returns. even on you tube those singers bring tears ... the beauty !!! both of them are music's own stars no matter who wins it.