Simon Cowell said on Tuesday night that David Archuleta had scored a knockout victory in the "American Idol" finale. Instead, the voters scored a TKO of their own, punching out the opinion of the "Idol" judges.David Cook was crowned the winner of "Idol" on Wednesday, and it wasn't a nail-biter. Ryan Seacrest called the final margin of 56 percent to 44 percent a significant amount when it comes from a total of 97.5 million ballots. What had been seen as the closest competition in ages wound up being what appears to be the biggest rout ever, with Cook winning by 12 million votes.
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