It’s that time again. We’re down to the final 3 stars on Dancing with the Stars. So, let’s get your vote on. I’m going to put up 2 polls. One poll will be for you to vote for who you THINK will be the winner of Dancing with the Stars season 9. The second poll will be for you to vote for who you WANT to be the winner of Dancing with the Stars season 9. So far we’ve been pretty good at predicting the past winners of Dancing with the Stars. Let’s keep it up.

First what you think…

Now for your wants…

It’s time to start voting for the 3 couples that you think will be in the Dancing with the Stars finale. Yes, this Dancing with the Stars poll is going to be a little different. You can vote for up to 3 people. Ideally you’d vote for the 3 that you think will make it to the finale of Dancing with the Stars 2009. However, you can only vote for 3. Tomorrow, we’ll post a new poll where you can vote on the winner of Dancing with the Stars 2009.

ABC and Dancing with the Stars made a great decision to keep the Dancing with the Stars 2009 top 3 final performances to only an hour. It was a great hour of entertainment. Any longer and they’d have been stretching for content. Here’s my review of the top 3 from tonight’s show.

Shawn Johnson – Anyone that watches Shawn has to just love her little girl innocence and her cute personality. Her detractors use that against her, but that’s a big plus for me. Sure, she doesn’t have that adult woman’s nuance in her dancing, but she’s so precise in her movements.

Shawn’s freestyle was far and away the best of the night. I was really disappointed that she didn’t pull at least a few tasteful gymnastics tricks, but it was still entertaining.

Copyright 2009 Craig Sjodin / ABC

Gilles freestyle was my least favorite of the night. The freestyle highlighted Cheryl instead of Gilles. If I was evaluating Cheryl, then I’d have given it a 10. Cheryl really danced it with some amazing personality. Plus, I think that Gilles should have stuck with the sensual stuff he started with. When he went to playful, he just didn’t pull it off very well. The effort was there, but it just felt awkward. I should also mention that I think it’s a joke that Len would mark down Melissa for her “choice of style” but would still give a 10 to Gilles who had much less dancing (see Carrie Anna and Bruno’s comments).

Copyright 2009 Craig Sjodin / ABC

I really enjoyed Melissa’s freestyle. It was occasionally disjointed, but unlike Len I really loved that she incorporated her cheerleading moves into the dance. It shows her versatility which is what I think freestyle should be all about. It’s just shameful that Len would mark down her score just because he didn’t like that style of dancing. Lesson for all those doing a freestyle in the future: add in at least some ballroom or get marked down by Len.

Copyright 2009 Craig Sjodin / ABC

UPDATE: You can watch the video announcing the Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Winner.

I just posted the results from the Pure Dancing with the Stars poll. However, I thought it would also be fun to take a look at other ways of determining who the most popular of the final 3 is (since at this point it really becomes a popularity contest).

I recently posted a list of the Dancing with the Stars twitter accounts. Since then, my stats program has tracked which twitter account link has been clicked on the most. Certainly not a scientific way to determine who is the most popular, but still fun fodder while we wait for tomorrow’s Dancing with the Stars finale.

Here is the ranking according to the number of clicks to the final 3’s twitter accounts:
1. Melissa Rycroft
2. Gilles Marini
3. Shawn Johnson

Interesting, no?

Of course, another way to look at it is by number of followers that each star has on their twitter account. Those would go like this:
1. Shawn Johnson – 6768 Twitter Followers
2.3. Gilles Marini – 1444 Twitter Followers
3.2. Melissa Rycroft – 258 Twitter Followers 4797 Twitter Followers

Granted, Shawn and Gilles definitely are using Twitter more than Melissa. Although, it is interesting that it’s the same as the poll results I just posted previously. [UPDATE: One of my twitter followers informed me that Melissa Rycroft has another twitter account with many more followers. I've updated the post to reflect the difference. I wondered why Melissa wasn't updating the account I knew about. By the way, you can follow this website on Twitter as well.]

Any other cool ways that I should look at who will become the next Dancing with the Stars winner?

UPDATE: You can watch the video announcing the Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Winner.

I recently invited readers of Pure Dancing with the Stars to vote for the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner. I posted 2 polls asking “Who do you WANT to be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner?” and “Who WILL be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 Winner?”

The following are the predictions for will become the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner:

Who do you WANT to be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner?

Who WILL be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 Winner?

Looks like Shawn Johnson has a lot to look forward to on the finale of Dancing with the Stars season 8. Although, I have to admit that this has to be the closest race ever in the history of Dancing with the Stars. I said previously that it reminds me of back when Mario Lopez and Joey Fatone were really close.

UPDATE 2: Vote for the Dancing with the Stars 2009 finale couples.

UPDATE: You can watch the video announcing the Dancing with the Stars Season 8 Winner.

We’re down to the final 3 on Dancing with the Stars 2009 and so it’s time for you to make your voice heard. I don’t think it’s fair to only do one poll. So, I divided it into to polls to allow you to vote for who will be the winner of Dancing with the Stars Season 8 and who you want to be the winner of Dancing with the Stars Season 8. Let us know the reasoning for your DWTS 2009 vote in the comments.

Now who do you WANT to be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner…

Disclaimer: This is just a fun poll done by Pure DWTS and has no relation to ABC or Dancing with the Stars.

Last week I posted a poll to predict who will be the winner of Dancing with the Stars Season 8. The results from the voting is in and I must admit that I’m not surprised by the voting. That’s a bad sign for the show. Unless of course, the Pure Dancing with the Stars readers are wrong, but that has yet to happen on the big things.

Here are the results of the voting for winner of Dancing with the Stars season 8:
Gilles Marini – 43.14%
Shawn Johnson – 20.26%
Melissa Rycroft – 19.61%
Lil’ Kim – 9.80%
Chuck Wicks – 4.58%
Ty Murray – 1.31%
Lawrence Taylor – 1.31%

Looks like people have predicted that Cheryl Burke is going to take home another Mirror Ball Trophy. Gilles dancing definitely deserves it. We’ll see if his and Cheryl’s fans can do their part.

I have to admit that this season of Dancing with the Stars has been one of the hardest seasons to predict. However, I’m really happy to say that the previous Dancing with the Stars voting we did correctly predicted 6 of the top 7 on DWTS 8. The only mistake was the poll chose Steve-O over Lawrence Taylor.

So, I’m putting my trust in the incredible Pure Dancing with the Stars readership to vote for who you think will be the Dancing with the Stars 2009 winner. You can only vote once for your favorite star below.

Tonight they announced that no one was sent home on DWTS, but that the scores from this week would be carried over to next week. That means we have a pretty good idea that Maurice and Cheryl, Warren and Kym and Brooke and Derek are safe. The rest depends on how well they score next week and how many people vote next week.

The question is which of the other bottom couples will be going home on next week’s dancing with the stars. Remember that votes on Dancing with the Stars seem to count for quite a bit since Cloris was able to make up 4 points on Rocco with fan voting.

I think I’m going make an emotional vote on this Dancing with the Stars poll.