E&P: New Poll Suggests Stephen Colbert Should Be Frontrunner Within a Month!

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By E&P Staff

Published: October 25, 2007 10:15 PM ET

NEW YORK Less than a week ago, shortly after he announced for president, Stephen Colbert was favored by only a little more than 2% of Democrats as the favorite for the nomination. Now, a Rasmussen Report national telephone survey has found that he gains 13% of voters in a matchup with Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Hillary Clinton.

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If he keeps gaining over 10% a week, Colbert should be leading the field before November is out.

Colbert announced last week that he would run in the primary for both parties in his native South Carolina. An appearance on "Meet the Press" followed, naturally.

In an unofficial kickoff for the race, the mayor of Columbia, S.C., will greet Colbert during a visit this Sunday -- and declare it "Stephen Colbert Day."

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1. LAT: Have we so given up on politics that 13% of us would rather a comedian become president

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-webcolbert26oct26,1,1061568.story?coll=la-entnews-tv

A recent Rasmussen Report national telephone survey found that comedian Stephen Colbert is preferred by 13% of voters over Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Rodham Clinton. The survey was conducted last week, not long after Colbert's announcement on his late-night Comedy Central show that he would be running for president of the United States, but only in his home state of South Carolina.

That a comedian who has built his persona around being a vapid, self-centered, conservative nonsense talker is currently polling so high took us by surprise -- especially in the midst of a war with no end in sight, staggering national debt and unprecedented low approval ratings for our current president.

Has America lost its collective mind? Have we so given up on politics that 13% of us would rather a comedian become president than someone who has actually spent some time governing a state or passing laws in Congress?

:rofl:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. yes.

because he would only be beholden to Dorito's, not Exxon-Mobile-BP-Haliburton-Carlyle.

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3. the horror... doritos would be re-classified as a vegetable.

and the secret cheeseburger flavored ones would replace chicken patty sandwiches as an entree in school lunches.


http://x13d.doritos.com/

[IDemo]

6. Looks like he's got the seagull vote wrapped up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLeHgabGqHY

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9. one down....

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4. but it`s rasmussen report

why they certainly can be trusted to publish correct polls...so steve is polling just a few points below obama? .....

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5. they way I read it -it is who would you vote for out of

Clinton Guiliani and Colbert.

But I could be wrong.

[SteelPenguin]

7. I'm surprised the number isn't higher

If only 13% have realized that our system itself is inherently broken then that IS a problem.

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8. and the two-party system is a little stuck in the mud.