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Dial Idol is up with its predictions for tonight's "American Idol"

By  Sun-Times Wire
   
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Take it with a grain of salt, kids (though, the site claims it correctly predicted who was going home 97 percent of the time last season, I seem to remember them being less accurate).

Most surprising: Anoop Desai jumped to second place according to the site.

Bottom three: Megan Joy Corkrey, Allison Iraheta (?!?) and Alexis Grace.

Site says it’s too close to call, but Grace had the least amount of busy signals.

We’ll see if they’re right at about 8:50 tonight.

Of course, we’ll be chatting throughout the hour-long show beginning at 8 p.m. Join us, won’t you?

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