In poll, Colbert finishes ahead of Richardson, Kucinich and Gravel!

[NYCGirl]

Yes, it was conducted by a GOP pollster...but on the Republican side, Colbert finished behind Tancredo and Paul.

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

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).

[SoCalDem]

1. Uh-oh.. the freepers must have finally caught on to his schtick

at first, a lot of them thought he was "for real" and liked him :)_

[vireo]

2. He's only running in SC

And, so far, just the Dem primary (the Repug fee is too expensive). Any polling from SC?

I love Stephen but would hate for him to screw things up for a legitmate candidate (unless it's Clinton, of course .;-) ).