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sheshe2

(83,770 posts)
Mon Dec 10, 2012, 06:34 PM Dec 2012

Colbert for Senate?

According to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, Stephen Colbert is the most popular choice to replace Senator Jim DeMint.


Colbert is the choice of 20 percent of registered South Carolina voters polled, Rep. Tim Scott (R-SC) sees 15 percent of the total, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) gets 14 percent amd former South Carolina first lady Jenny Sanford is fourth with 11 percent. The rest of the field is in single digits. Twenty-two percent of Republicans want Scott, and 21 percent of the GOP wants Gowdy. But the rest of the electorate is pro-Colbert.

I’m forced to wonder what portion of the South Carolina electorate is both in favor of Colbert and has no idea that he is mocking them at all times.

http://bobcesca.com/blog-archives/2012/12/colbert-for-senate.html

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Colbert for Senate? (Original Post) sheshe2 Dec 2012 OP
Franken and Colbert. silverweb Dec 2012 #1
Now that I would like to see! sheshe2 Dec 2012 #2
So would a lot of... hey, wait! silverweb Dec 2012 #8
... sheshe2 Dec 2012 #9
I'd like to see him file papers in '14 for the seat SoCalDem Dec 2012 #3
Tweet @nikkihaley and use the hashtag #SenatorColbert. KamaAina Dec 2012 #4
Not my state, but I would vote for him quakerboy Dec 2012 #5
Is he a SC resident? nt rDigital Dec 2012 #6
I found this sheshe2 Dec 2012 #7

silverweb

(16,402 posts)
1. Franken and Colbert.
Mon Dec 10, 2012, 06:45 PM
Dec 2012

Last edited Mon Dec 10, 2012, 10:47 PM - Edit history (1)

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]In the Senate at the same time. Two brilliant, witty progressives who know how to "work" their audience.

I wonder if they could resist the temptation to play off of each other at times?

Now that would liven things up in the Senate!

silverweb

(16,402 posts)
8. So would a lot of... hey, wait!
Mon Dec 10, 2012, 10:49 PM
Dec 2012

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]LOTS of people would pay to see that.

Charge admission and pay off the debt! Cha-ching!

SoCalDem

(103,856 posts)
3. I'd like to see him file papers in '14 for the seat
Mon Dec 10, 2012, 06:51 PM
Dec 2012

Who knows??...without much campaigning, he might even win..

I doubt that he would enjoy the job though.

sheshe2

(83,770 posts)
7. I found this
Mon Dec 10, 2012, 10:40 PM
Dec 2012
Colbert is known to live with his wife and children in New Jersey, but both he and wife, Evelyn, hail from Charleston, S.C. A house there is listed in the White Pages under his wife’s name with the qualifier, “Guest House.”

Well-known senators like John Kerry, John McCain and Kent Conrad own

http://search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0oG7lErnMZQQCcApVVXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE1dDB2NmZrBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMwRjb2xvA2FjMgR2dGlkA1ZJUDE5OV8yNDg-/SIG=13kih7bgc/EXP=1355222187/**http%3a//abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/12/stephen-colbert-hints-at-south-carolina-senate-run/



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