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	<title>iJohn &#187; American Idol</title>
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		<title>Dial Idol Predictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 12:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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What a great ending last night to American Idol! I hope you all voted for your favorite Idol!
This morning, the predictions from Dial Idol show David Cook with a considerable lead to be the next winner as American Idol. Dial Idol makes these predictions based on the busy signals.
David Cook &#8211; 40.9
David Archuleta &#8211; 29.3
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<p>What a great ending last night to American Idol! I hope you all voted for your favorite Idol!</p>
<p>This morning, the predictions from Dial Idol show David Cook with a considerable lead to be the next winner as American Idol. Dial Idol makes these predictions based on the busy signals.</p>
<p>David Cook &#8211; 40.9<br />
David Archuleta &#8211; 29.3</p>
<p>This just might be enough to say David Cook will be the winner after David Archuleta brought his A game and had a knock out performance last night!   <span id="more-138"></span></p>
<p>I voted from 9 p.m. till 1 a.m. on my iPhone nonstop while two computers were voting for David Archuleta. I&#8217;m hoping that was enough to make him the winner! We&#8217;ll have to tune in and see tonight!</p>
<p>This is what Dial Idol said on their website about the predictions:</p>
<blockquote><p>Let&#8217;s be clear &#8211; DialIdol is definitively predicting  						that David Cook will win American Idol. No ifs, ands or  						buts about it. No crazy margin of error claims or  						anything. The DialIdol scores are significantly  						different enough to wash all that out the window.</p>
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<p>This  						comes as a bit of a surprise to me given that David  						Archuleta &#8220;knocked out&#8221; David Cook during the  						performance show so before you decide to skip the  						results show tonight you might want to consider that I  						myself will be watching with the usual uncertain  						anticipation that has become habit for me!</p>
<p>DialIdol.com got slammed pretty hard last night by lots  						of fans trying to see DialIdol&#8217;s predictions. Page load  						time was in the neighborhood of 1-2 minutes from 9pm &#8211;  						1am. Sorry about this. Sometimes it seems that it is  						easier to predict who will win American Idol than it is  						to predict how much traffic DialIdol will get. :)</p>
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<p><strong>Who was your favorite last night? Do you think Dial Idol has their predictions right on the money?</strong></p>
<p><strong>Update 5-21-08 @ 10:30 a.m.</strong></p>
<p><a title="Zaba" href="http://www.zabasearch.com/ai_stats.php" target="_blank">Zaba</a> Search has their own little polling results with calling and texting votes taking into account. They show the margin is a lot less&#8230;who is right? Take a look at Zaba Results, and I guess we&#8217;ll find out tonight!</p>
<p><img src="http://www.zabasearch.com/ai/American%20Idol%20Season%207%20Finals.png" alt="Zaba Search American Idol Season 7 Finals Results" width="397" height="318" /></p>
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		<title>David Archuleta &#8211; My Pick for American Idol!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 21:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iJohn</dc:creator>
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Tonight is the final night for the two Davids to sing their hearts out to win over America. We do know that David will win on Wednesday night&#8230;but what David?
This has been an awesome season of American Idol. It is hard to believe we are down to two contestants. I have to give my full [...]]]></description>
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<p>Tonight is the final night for the two Davids to sing their hearts out to win over America. We do know that David will win on Wednesday night&#8230;but what David?</p>
<p>This has been an awesome season of American Idol. It is hard to believe we are down to two contestants. I have to give my full support tonight for David Archuleta. I think his voice is wonderful, and he has so much passion and talent for singing. I know we will see him a lot more in the future even if there is a sad Wednesday night if David Cook wins American Idol. How can we all help David Archuleta win? <strong>VOTE</strong>!    <span id="more-135"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.ijohnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/dialidol.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-137" title="Dial Idol For American Idol Vote" src="http://www.ijohnw.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/dialidol.jpg" alt="Dial Idol For American Idol Vote" width="525" height="164" /></a></p>
<p>This awesome application was developed to help vote for your favorite American Idol! It is called &#8211; <a title="Dial Idol American Idol" href="http://www.dialidol.com/" target="_blank">Dial Idol</a>. It allows you to select what contestants you want to call automatically and vote on your computer. You can select auto start and auto stop and let it dial all night long until the polls close for David Archuleta.</p>
<p>Your votes and busy signals will be sent back to Dial Idol and it will automatically generate statistics based on the busy signals and predict the winner. Usually, Dial Idol is always right. Last week, the percentages were:</p>
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<li>David Cook &#8211; 32.65%</li>
<li>David Archuleta &#8211; 22.07%</li>
<li>Syesha Mercado &#8211; 15.08%</li>
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<p>According to those results, David Archuleta needs a lot of work tonight for your votes! What you need is your computer, hook up your phone line to the modem on the computer, and <a title="Download Dial Idol" href="http://www.dialidol.com/asp/download/Download.asp" target="_blank">download Dial Idol</a>. Highlight all three of David Archuleta, click auto start and auto stop, and then click Dial Idol! Let the votes be casted for David Archuleta.</p>
<p><strong>Who do you think/want to win American Idol? Have you used Dial Idol before?</strong></p>
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