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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 17 2007, 09:40 PM (1,025 Views) | |
| Nintendo_Golfer | Oct 17 2007, 09:40 PM Post #1 |
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Running for President of the USA In South Carolina There's a full story on associated press but the first one from ign sums it up nicely. I hope he wins. e: he made it clear on his show, he's only running in SC (his home state) |
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| Catscratch | Oct 18 2007, 06:56 AM Post #2 |
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Think about this. |
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| Ramen Hood | Oct 18 2007, 03:34 PM Post #3 |
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Its obviously just a puplicity. But isn't he just running for president in SC, in the primaries? I hope he does well, nonetheless. He'd be a better president than Giuliani or Clinton IMO. But what we should remember is that Steven Colbert isn't a real person, he's a character. I hope he doesn't win the election though... |
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| Torkip | Oct 18 2007, 03:40 PM Post #4 |
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I hope he wins. Bush is not even helping with the polution, a big club was going to remake new machines to burn trash without getting the mercury in the air that rains in the water and we eat the fish and become poisoned. But what does Bush say? He decided to go against that and help them burn more. |
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| Nintendo_Golfer | Oct 19 2007, 07:31 AM Post #5 |
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yeah, see, each state has it's own primary... <_< I suppose I could've written it more specifically, but I really don't see your point.
Yes. Technically people could write him in, but the % who would actually do that would be insignificant compared with the front-runners.
He's a democrat. (pretty obvious from how much he satirizes the republican side of things) I've seen him out of character and he seems like a perfectly reasonable guy. I'd vote for him over Clinton or Giuliani any day. And I know you like Ron Paul, but i personally don't think he can beat out the more popular candidates, nor do I like his policies. No offense. In any case, Colbert has done a brilliant set-up and this will make his show that much more fun to watch. |
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| Catscratch | Oct 19 2007, 10:09 AM Post #6 |
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You'll have to forgive me if I don't fully understand the election process in America, but wouldn't running as a candidate in only one primary guarantee you can't run for president, no matter how well you do there? Maybe I'm just misunderstanding semantics or something, but aren't you running as a hopeful until you win a majority of primaries, then you get to run for president? Come to think of it, how do you even run in just one primary? edit: Oh, wait or are the primaries to elect the delegates to elect the presidential candidate? So is what he's saying is he's putting his name forward as a hopeful presidential candidate, and running as a delegate in SC? Or am I still missing something here? |
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| Ramen Hood | Oct 19 2007, 03:35 PM Post #7 |
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CS, I'm not even sure about that one.
Maybe if he does well in SC, he will run as an Independant. And N_G, I actually think Ron Paul can win the Republican nomination, then the presidency. Sure, it's a longshot, but he's gaining more and more popularity, and the election is still a year away. And don't agree with his policies?!
:o I WILL DEBATE YOU NAME THE TIME AND PLACE, FOOL!!
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| P=D | Oct 19 2007, 11:19 PM Post #8 |
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Uh, Stephen Colbert is a comedian who takes on an exaggerative Bill O'Reilly-type persona on his show to mock conservative pundits and the right-wing in general — which he pulls off rather effectively, by the way. I'm pretty sure that qualifies him as a "real person."
He's doing it as a joke, you clown. Of course he isn't going to win.
His "support" (if you can even call it that) for the Republican nomination is hovering around 1-2% and will probably stay in that range. All the "support" Ron Paul has is concentrated on youtube.com with the few dozen minions he has spamming every video there promoting the guy as a semi-messianic figure. His entire campaign is nothing short of a joke. |
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| Ramen Hood | Oct 19 2007, 11:38 PM Post #9 |
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Where do you get your numbers?
Just like how Hugh Laurie is really a drug addicted docter with a heart of stone. Oh, wait... |
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| MasterDS | Oct 20 2007, 09:34 AM Post #10 |
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Guys Great Canadite, or Greatest Canadite? I think he's the Greatest Canadite. |
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| P=D | Oct 20 2007, 03:28 PM Post #11 |
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http://www.pollingreport.com/wh08rep.htm
What the hell? How does this comment relate to what I said in any way? Did you even read my last post? Since you missed it last time, let me clear this up for you with a logical proof: Stephen Colbert is a comedian. Comedians are real people. Therefore, Stephen Colbert is a real person. Get it now? |
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| KatzMotel | Oct 20 2007, 04:17 PM Post #12 |
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He's actually tried before-- he ran for president as the Libertarian candidate in 1988. He gained a whopping 1% of the vote. Though he might have a slavish legion of misinformed teenage fans on the internet, that's about all the real support he has. From what I've seen, he's scarcely mentioned in the American media, and is completely ignored in media from elsewhere, unlike more prominent candidates. All this is not to mention the likelihood of the dissatisfaction many people evidently have with the Bush administration affecting the number of votes the GOP can nab no matter what candidate they choose... |
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| Ramen Hood | Oct 20 2007, 04:59 PM Post #13 |
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P=D, I'm saying Steven Colbert(pronounced t) is playing Steven Colbert(silent t). And no polls are correct, just watch, Ron Paul might not win, but I think he'll do very well. Alex, Ya, that was a looong time ago. Not a time where more than 2/3 disagree with the current president, or a time of the Internet age. Plus, he ran as a Libertarian lol. And I think it was Truman that won the presidency and everyone thought his opponent was going to win, and Truman didn't stand a chance. Also, if I remember correctly, there was a time where Reagan has the underdog as well.
WHAAT?! Granted, while he may have a lot of teenage followers, more so are not teens. And I dont see how they are misinformed. Please explain. |
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| Catscratch | Oct 20 2007, 05:05 PM Post #14 |
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He's definitely easier to take seriously than the real candidates. |
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| KatzMotel | Oct 20 2007, 05:13 PM Post #15 |
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Ross Perot ran as an independent in 1992 and managed to get almost 20% of the vote; individualisation of politics means that parties aren't are necessarily as important as they might have been at some points in the past. Since Paul likes to call himself a constitutionalist, why doesn't he run as an independent? As far as I can remember, the founding fathers weren't too keen on political parties anyway. :3
Yeah, but both managed to at least become the presidential candidate for their party, which would, you know, require mass support within their own party. Which Paul doesn't have, unless you consider less than 5% to be mass support.
Please. The majority of his teenage supporters hang out on hopelessly sensationalist social bookmarking sites and, in between hailing him as God-on-earth, enjoy reading about 9/11 being a great CIA conspiracy and Dick Cheney being responsible for everything bad that has happened since the Triassic. |
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Maybe if he does well in SC, he will run as an Independant. And N_G, I actually think Ron Paul can win the Republican nomination, then the presidency. Sure, it's a longshot, but he's gaining more and more popularity, and the election is still a year away. And don't agree with his policies?!
:o I WILL DEBATE YOU NAME THE TIME AND PLACE, FOOL!!


