I would have been happy either way. I think they are both so uniquely talented, in my mind it was anyone's game and it didn't matter who won. I think DC felt that way too after an interview I read with him yesterday on EW Online, but I think the win meant a bit more to Archuletta.
As far as DA's dad is concerned, they showed him a couple times and he was happy, smiling and clapping. I don't know if he's as awful as the media makes him out to be. Overbearing and a bit controlling of his son (who's still a minor) maybe, but homicidal maniac who will do anything to get his kid famous, he is probably not.
