Archive | January, 2012

  Newt Gingrich skipped out of a scheduled appearance at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference Friday morning, with campaign staffers citing sparse attendance — there were only a few dozen people in the arena. Three hours later, 3,500 people crammed into Cistern Yard at the College of Charleston. The cell-phone network was overloaded as friends […]

Who, by the way, was only a make-believe politician, Comedy Central satirist Stephen Colbert, campaigning alongside erstwhile politician Herman Cain. Together they took over the Cistern Yard at the College of Charleston in what was surely the quirkiest, most spirited pep rally of the primary season.  http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/01/20/colbert-and-cain-rally-for-laughs-in-south-carolina/  

 CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two posts about Stephen Colbert? I know; I’m sorry. The Comedy Central host’s stunt presidential bid, his second, was the biggest show in downtown Charleston today; I was working nearby, so I walked over. The game was rigged. His rally, which used a stage CNN had set up for its own coverage, […]

 CHARLESTON, SC–Comic Stephen Colbert stumped for “president” at a big rally here Friday, mocking the election system by asking people to vote for Herman Cain in the South Carolina primary Saturday–whose name remains on the ballot even though he dropped his presidential bid. Colbert, a South Carolina native, appeared with Cain at the College of […]

I’ve never been to Charleston, S.C., but I’m pretty sure that, for this afternoon at least, Randolph Hall at the College of Charleston was located at the intersection of Reality and Satire. There it was that Stephen Colbert and Herman Cain, unlikely ballotfellows, held a funny, serious and seriously funny rally to promote Colbert’s bid […]

Colbert, the Comedy Central star running a psuedo-presidential campaign, and Cain filled the main quadrangle at the College of Charleston with an eclectic mix of college students, Occupy Wall Street protesters and townspeople drawn in by the circus-like atmosphere.  http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/205457-colbert-tells-sc-voters-to-vote-for-herman-cain-because-herman-cain-is-me  

 So what is happening to make him popular right now, I ask the one of the university’s professors of political science?   It is fascinating, I see it all the time in the class room,” Kendra Stewart says. “College students really being attracted to a candidate who is tailoring his message to them. Telling them […]

Thousands of young people flocked to the campus of the College of Charleston for the rally, which included a marching band and a choir on stage. Stacey Hanchuck, an independent voter, said she plans to cast her ballot for Cain. “In a roundabout way, we’re voting for Stephen Colbert 2017,” she said, holding a homemade […]

 CHARLESTON, S.C.–How about this as a sign of how strange things have become in the Republican presidential race? Newt Gingrich, the candidate with all of the momentum in the South Carolina primary, canceled a morning appearance on Friday because of concerns about sparse attendance. But just a few blocks away and a few hours later, […]

Newt Gingrich skipped out of a scheduled appearance at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference Friday morning, with campaign staffers citing sparse attendance — there were only a few dozen people in the arena. Three hours later, 3,500 people crammed into Cistern Yard at the College of Charleston. The cell-phone network was overloaded as friends desperately […]