Colbert’s Facebook group obliterates Obama numbers
Proving that people who aren’t “pretending” to be politicians have less political validity than actors… Stephen Colbert’s Presidential campaign group on FaceBook, 1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert has, in less than 10 days, outdone Obama’s (1,000,000 Strong) group, which took more than 9 months to get 381,000 members.
Furthermore, the site adds, “it has taken the “Stop Hillary Clinton: (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary)” more than 8 months to get over 488,000 members. We beat this within 6 days!”
Colbert will easily have 1 million before the 10th day and if that is any indication of his poll power, he’s a shoe-in for the GOP nomination. But it’s not in the can yet… as Politico reports, his campaign could cause his network a pile of legal trouble.
If he continues moving toward a presidential campaign, particularly if he, or Comedy Central, keeps spending money exploring and promoting by hyping it on his nightly half-hour news parody show, he could get himself and his network in trouble for violating election laws, including those barring corporate campaign contributions.
“You don’t get a different set of rules because you’re running as a joke,” said Marc Elias, a leading Washington election lawyer who represents Democratic candidates.
“You may get a different set of rules because it’s a joke and you’re not really running,” said Elias, who stressed he was not speaking for any client. “But if it isn’t a joke, then there may be any number of issues.”
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October 28th, 2007 at 11:01 am
The news puts out so much propaganda. I went to Connecticutt over the summer and on my aunt’s refrigerator there was a magnet that said.. “Vote Responsibly, Vote Democrat”.
Please understand, I don’t like the Republicans and what they did with the war.. but what we have to understand is that the democrats have never been an antiwar party.. What the establishment supports won’t lead us in the right direction..
Our ‘frontrunners’ choices are hilary, obama, edwards, guiliani, romney, mccain, thompson..
obama seems like a cool guy, but he’s still a globalist..
I encourage you guys to look up Ron Paul.. because he is the only one who has a chance to move the country back in the right direction.. Theres a reason he has such a huge internet following and is growing exponentially. The thing that will turn you off is that he is running on the republican ticket.. but i’m asking you to please look pass that.. we have to understand that left/right are irrellevant.. please look up ron paul!