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David Cook Wins American Idol!
David Cook Wins American Idol!
After a dramatic, tension-filed few months, David Cook defeated David Archuleta by 12 million votes to capture the seventh season title on American Idol . Ryan Seacrest made the announcement, and then his introduced the winner to the audience with the following words, causing Cook to break down in tears: A bartender and now the winner of this competition, brought to us by his ...
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