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American Idol: It's Going to Be Close

By Jeralyn

The two-hour finale has just begun. I thought it was just the pre-teen, text-message obsessed crowd that might create an upset on American Idol tonight, resulting in Kris Allen beating Adam Lambert. But, there may be a religious factor and he may pick up a big chunk of the Danny Gokey vote:

[Kris] Allen is a married college student and has worked as a church worship leader. Gokey, a widower, is a church music director.

To Kris' credit, [More...]

Allen said Monday that he hoped the outcome isn't decided by "having the Christian vote." "I hope it has to do with your talent and the performance that you give and the package that you have. It's not about religion and all that kind of stuff," he said.

In any event, it's going to be a close one.

Lots of performances: Lionel Richie, Carlos Santana, Cindi Lauper, Queen Latifah, Black Eyed Peas, Keith Urban, the reigning American Idol David Cook and season 4 winner Carrie Underwood.

Even the New York Times is live-blogging the finale. I'm just going to watch and update through the hour over at PopLeft. Feel free to comment here or there -- I'll be going back and forth. And rooting for Adam. I even texted my vote in twice last night.

Update: Thanks to Jesse Csinscak for putting my PopLeft story on his petition for DWTS on his site.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on May 20, 2009 (boomark / email).