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October 26, 2007

For those who are un-hip to the fads of my generation, Comedy Central star Stephen Colbert recently announced that he will run for President in the South Carolina primary as a Democrat and a Republican. With sponsors and a regular show, his satirical candidacy is raising serious questions with the FEC.

But Colbert's candidacy may raise more than academic questions with the FEC. It's shaping up to have a very real impact on the campaign. Colbert has a sizable number of people collecting signatures to get him on the ballot. And now, a new telephone poll (presumably a land line poll ignoring cell phones) by the Rasmussen Report shows that if the U.S. presidential election were to be held today, and the candidates were Rudy Giuliani, Hillary Clinton and Stephen Colbert, the Comedy Central star would get 13% of the votes. "With former Sen. Fred Thompson substituted for Giuliani, the host of Comedy Central's Colbert Report still got 12%."

Posted by Joshua Claybourn at October 26, 2007 11:33 AM

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