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Tonight will be the final episode of this years Americann Idol.  If you watched last night it seemed like every judge feels like Taylor Hicks is a lock.  Lets think about why that might NOT be the case.

A few weeks ago EVERYONE had Chris Daughtry as a lock, I mean he was heads and tails above every other singer in the contest according to many people.  Yet there he stood after "Elvis" night, eliminated and wondering why.
 

The simple answer is because his fans became complacent, and he did a half-assed job that night signing the two songs he sang. Fast forward to last night.  Katherine sang pretty well, but Taylor sang well too. Both final songs stank, if either of those is released as a single for the 'winner' it won't get very far in the charts unless someone does some major re-working. Back to why Katherine might win.  Voter apathy.  With all the judges singing the praises of Taylor, the odds are that a few people didn't bother to call he numbers for him.  And the Katherine fans were probably dialing like crazy to vote for her.

Will it be enough to sway the vote?  I just checked one survey and it has Taylor leading 60% to 40% - that about jibes with what I was thinking would happen after Elliot was eliminated last week.  I assumed any Elliot fans that hung around would switch their vote to Taylor and not Katherine.  I tried dialing all 6 numbers at 12:30am (Eastern) this morning and all 6 rang busy, so it certainly appears people were dialing in like crazy.

I think Taylor will win tonight, but if he doesn't I won't be surprised.

American Idol airs Tonight on Fox at 8pm where one of the contestants will  be crowned "American Idol" during the two hour long show.