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Carrie Underwood voted most popular 'Idol'


May 19, 2008 Country singer Carrie Underwood is the all-time most popular "American Idol" winner, and dreadlocked Jason Castro was voted the most overrated contestant this season, according to a poll released on Monday by AOL Television. With the most watched U.S. television show reaching its climax this week, finalists David Archuleta, 17, and David Cook, 25, are running neck and neck in terms of best performances of the seventh season, according to the poll. Underwood, the 2005 "American Idol" winner who went on to win Grammy, American Music, Billboard and Country Music Assn. awards, was voted the most popular "Idol" by 54% of those taking part.

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