being more than 2 1/2 times her age, i think her "whole" life in competitions still does not seem like a long time at all...really, so what?
jordin, at most, is just past puberty (where were you at 17? on a national level in singing or anything else?)...the fact is that jordin is very young by any standard, and for her to be good, whether she be a lifer in singing contests or michael jackson's sister, is still irrelevant in light of her being in singing competitions all her life
jordin is very close to the best and most poised singer in america who happens to be a minor who still has to take high school level classes through a tutor on off times between idol shows
she deserves a few hundred thousand votes just for her bravery for being a finalist and being so young
if it were five years from now, she would decimate blake, but as it stands, it's prolly a much more close competition because blake has the guts and originality factors on his side