Poll: Colbert fifth among Democrats, ahead of Richardson, Kucinich and Gravel

[DeepModem Mom]

WP political blog, "The Fix," by Chris Cillizza
Poll Tries to Measure Colbert Effect

You don't need The Fix to state the obvious: Stephen Colbert is everywhere right now. Following the announcement of his presidential ambitions last week, Colbert has chalked up quite a run of political coverage, capping the week with an appearance on ultimate establishment Washington TV show: "Meet the Press". And now, we have national poll results detailing Colbert's chances -- and, no, we aren't kidding.

Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling firm, recently completed a national poll of 1,000 likely 2008 voters that included Colbert's name in both the GOP and Democratic primaries. (He has announced his plans to run in both the Democratic and Republican primaries.) In the field from Oct. 18-21, the survey has a 5 percent margin of error.

In the Democratic primary, Colbert takes 2.3 percent of the vote -- good for fifth place behind Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (40 percent), Sen. Barack Obama (19 percent), former Sen. John Edwards (12 percent) and Sen. Joe Biden (2.7 percent). Colbert finished ahead of Gov. Bill Richardson (2.1 percent), Rep. Dennis Kucinich (2.1 percent) and former Sen. Mike Gravel (less than 1 percent).

He was less lucky in the Republican field, where he took less than 1 percent of the vote behind even longshot candidates like Reps. Tom Tancredo and Ron Paul. Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani led the Republican field with 29 percent, followed by former Gov. Mitt Romney at 12 percent, former Sen. Fred Thompson (11 percent) and Sen. John McCain (10 percent).

"It's clear that Colbert's truthiness image and 'I am America' message has serious resonance among Democrats," said Neil Newhouse, a POS partner....

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/thefix/2007/10/the_colbert_effect.html

[TwilightGardener]

1. I'd seriously have to think about voting for Colbert (the man, not the character)!

Pair him up with Stewart and you would have a real contender as a ticket. Or Lewis Black--although Lewis Black is a closet Republican.

[lonestarnot]

7. Lewis Black is not a closet Republican!

[TwilightGardener]

8. Yes he is! He won't vote for any of our candidates, but he will vote

for a Republican! I read this in Politico.

edit to add link: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/washington-whispers/2007/10/22/a-bipartisan-ticket-now-thats-funny.html?s_cid=rss:a-bipartisan-ticket-now-thats-funny.html

[lonestarnot]

14. I don't think the CH comment indicates that he is a pug, just a joke,

but maybe you are right. I would have to have more evidence.

[TwilightGardener]

15. I'm kind of annoyed that he dissed our top candidates, and that they

would have to be paired up with a 'Pub for him to vote for them. And I don't think he was joking--he doesn't have a "character" like Colbert, Lewis Black is always himself. But he's still one of my favorite comedians.

[Ian David]

18. Lewis Black wrote the forward to Larry The Cable Guy's book.

I wouldn't throw Lewis Black under the bus for that... but it's something that might bear mentioning.

[Crabby Appleton]

2. Headline should be "Colbert in 5-way tie for last place"

Given their margin of error

[The Count]

3. Love Colbert, but he shouldn't mock the voting process. Enough do it already.

Not funny.

[mark414]

11. as if it's not already a mockery on its own?

[The Count]

16. It is - but you'll never get a democracy if you give up on them

[Xipe Totec]

4. POS partner... I love that!

:rofl:

[debbierlus]

5. I am sorry, but it isn't really funny.

The Daily Show & Colbert Schtick is getting sad & old....

Bush sure is a moron....Snicker...ha, ha, ha, ha, ha....

I have a sense of humor, but this is so serious & so sick, people need to do more then make jokes.
Two stolen elections, let's talk about that instead of Stephen Colbert.

[fenriswolf]

6. i'm sorry but i think stephen colbert does a little more

then snicker, I still watch his white house corospondants speech, man that was a full on attack of bush that I still love and i love to see laura's comment to stephen that was just barely caught "fuck you" hehe

[debbierlus]

13. Yeah, that was great. But, we need more then sarcasm

I am just burnt on any humor or irony surrounding the Bush administration. It has long ceased to be funny. And, the election system is a mess.

[The Count]

17. True. See my post as well.

[demodonkey]

9. Anybody ever see "Man Of The Year"?

http://www.manoftheyearmovie.net/

And thanks to Majority Leader Steny Hoyer fooling around and not bringing HR 811 to the House floor, for 2008 we will STILL have the bad, paperless voting machines that inspired this film.

Thanks, Steny! You're a real credit to the Democratic Party, you are. :puke:

[Neoma]

10. He has my vote.

And I didn't even take the poll.

[BootinUp]

12. It IS funny

its a joke on all the dodos that say they will vote for him. I say laugh, laugh out loud.