mtv.com - 5/22/2008
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David Cook was named the seventh-season winner of "American Idol," beating David Archuleta by 56 to 44 percent.
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mjsbigblog —
... up for debate, it certainly drew an audience willing to text and phone in their support.
With approximately 97.5 million votes cast, this season’s tally shattered the show’s previous record by more than 23 million. In just four hours, last night’s vote came close to matching the count cast in the 2004 election. Seacrest revealed early on — before the first commercial break, astonishingly — that the season-seven finale tally was split 56 to 44 percent.
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