Syesha Mercado was eliminated from American Idol on Wednesday, as we predicted in an earlier post. While she was an interesting and sometimes sexy performer, she was uneven, sometimes sounding silky and smooth, and sometimes sounding like finger-nails on a chalk-board. Still, we have to give her props for her amazing performance when she lost her voice and still belted out "Chain Of Fools."

The god-awful "phone-in questions" segment was thankfully missing from the show. That particular segment was usually like a huge sucking sound for 7 minutes of the program. Of course, the show was not absent a huge sucking sound, thanks to a performance by Fantasia, the Chris Tucker of pop music.

So now it's down to the Davids. David Cook, the better than Daughtry but still not anywhere near as good as Carly Smithson rocker guy, and David Archuleta, the talented but really only 3/4 full puppy dog boy.

popslant  still picks David Archuleta to win and David Cook to take second, by virtue of the former's huge teeny girl fan base, and the extra Vote For The Worst votes he picks up.