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Well, we’re only eleven-and-a-half months away from the 2008 elections, and as we’ve come to expect, the political news and blogs are becoming awash in polling numbers. Via Donklephant, I came across a Rasmussen poll notable because of it’s inclusion of potential third-party candidates: The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found Hillary Clinton leading Rudy Giuliani [...]
Seen at CNN: Two prominent supporters of Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in South Carolina called state Democratic Party officials urging them to oppose putting comedian Stephen Colbert’s name on the primary ballot, according to party officials and Obama supporters with knowledge of the calls. The Obama campaign folks involved say that they were just trying to [...]
Well, the entertainment level of the upcoming primary season just dropped a couple of notches. From Reuters, via the New York Times: Colbert, who has admitted he does not want to be president but just wanted to run for it in his native state of South Carolina, had filed for the Democratic ticket earlier on Thursday [...] 
With tongue firmly planted in cheek, I draw your attention to this wire service story, in case you hadn’t already heard the news: “I shall seek the office of the president of the United States,” Colbert said Tuesday on his Comedy Central show as red, white and blue balloons fell around him.[...] Colbert said he would run [...] |
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