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"It&amp;apos;s 2003 all over again! American Idol season 2 runner-up Clay Aiken is having a serious case of deja vu after his congressional race in North Carolina against textile entrepreneur Keith Crisco has been marked as too close to call.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nBack when he competed on the Fox reality singing competition against Ruben Studdard, Aiken lost by only 134,000 votes of the 24 million cast, causing many &amp;quot;Claymates&amp;quot; to question the show&amp;apos;s call-in voting system&amp;apos;s flaws.&amp;#xA0;\r\n\r\nFast forward to 2014 where he is once again neck-in-neck with a competitor, this time for a seat in Congress. The Washington Post reported that the state elections board&amp;apos;s unofficial results from the Tuesday, May 6 primaries give the former reality star 40 percent of the tally he needs to avoid a runoff election, but that his competitor has a large enough margin to request a recount.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I sort of prefer it when they just open the envelope and just tell you who won,&amp;quot; Aiken joked in a press conference on Tuesday, May 6. &amp;quot;But that said, we are feeling incredibly comfortable tonight.&amp;quot;\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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