# American Idol down to three

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-down-to-three/356887>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 15, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-down-to-three/356887 "2006-05-15T19:53:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-down-to-three/356887/121 "2006-05-18T22:21:30Z")

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> [@Walter Windchill](#):
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> I voted for Taylor and had no trouble getting through. Also, if you monitor Dial Idol, you’ll see their scores drop a lot towards the end of the call in time, indicating that people aren’t getting busy signals.
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> So I don’t think that the board is always jam packed, and I do think the winner is the one the most people vote for.
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> The percentages they cited translate to a much bigger difference between Taylor and Kat than between Kat and Elliott. Taylor had about 200,000 votes more than Kat, and Kat had 100,000 more than Elliott.

It took me about an hour of redialing on both phone lines to start getting through for Taylor, then it was hit or miss for a while, then in the last 20 minutes I was able to get in a lot more votes.

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**Author:** ![yellowval](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/919ad9/32.png) [@yellowval](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellowval)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-down-to-three/356887/122 "2006-05-19T18:05:13Z")

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I just remembered something I forgot to share with you guys earlier. You’re the only people I know who would appreciate it. Maybe. 🙂

Anyway, a friend of mine was flying down to Arizona last Saturday, and sent a text message to his girlfriend (who I was with at the time) saying that William Hung was on his flight. That’s all. It’s not too interesting of a story, but I felt the need to share.

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