Colbert’s Support Among Dems and Repubs
A new poll looks at the support for Stephen Colbert’s faux presidential campaign among Democrats and Republicans:
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).
Well, now. There are three candidates that need to pull out of the race right there.
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).
They just don’t get it.
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24. October, 2007 at 14:34
These people aren’t stupid. They’ll stay in the race as long as they resonably can before dropping out, if only to be able to keep the funds they raised for their “war chest” if/when they lose. Someone, somewhere is supporting these people enough to make some sort of financial donation. Profiting off of the stupidity of others? They get it, alright…