[GoRedBirds]

Al,

Yeah, I get where you're coming from with backing the "more human" underdog. I bet a lot of people feel that way, actually. She's like Sly in Rocky IV. Any of the Rockies, I guess (except for V... which never happened). And the competition would be more successful and more fun if Blake or Jordin really knock the next few weeks out of the park.

As far as Lakisha, I know all of us in the forum are a little TOO into AI either financially or otherwise, but doesn't she come off as a little bitchy? She seems to get a few demerits in my book from that personality angle because she doesn't seem to like anyone else and has that scowl of death half of the time she's not performing. I bet that's part of the reason she's been slipping (as far as we know) in relation to the smaller voices.