Too bad he’s already passed out his super-PAC money.
Stephen’s sister Elizabeth is running for a vacant seat in Congress, the seat held until recently by Rep. Tim Scott, who has now been appointed to the Senate. As a Democrat she faces an uphill battle. President Obama lost big in her district in the last election. Post story here.
I look forward to lots of amusement. I can only hope humor runs in the family.
She’ll probably face Mark “Appalachian Trail” Sanford, whose ducking out of the Governors office without telling anyone ought to cost him at least a few points at the polls. And I imagine her famous brother will help get out the vote amongst his liberal leaning fan-base, which might make a difference in what will probably be a low-turnout election.
But its an R +11 district, so even with that, probably something of a longshot.
Stephen Colbert’s fans are liberals? He says so many mean things about them I thought his fans would be conservatives. I guess he’s the Jack Chick of Basic Cable.
Seriously, in the first year or two of the program, surveys were showing that liberals loved the show as a parody, and many conservatives like it because they believed it was true. I suspect most of them have caught on by now.
Most, but not all. And more if you quote him without attribution. It’s so much fun to play with their pointy, little heads!
To be fair, much of what he says is actually out of the RNC’s playbook. And most seems to start that way.
Stephen, please, please make sure your sister’s campaign manager vets all your material about this before you use it.
When Colbert campaigned for President of South Carolina, there were murmurs of agreement after one woman called him a “Charleston Dandy.”
Assuming this term means “A flamboyant or effeminate male, regardless of sexual orientation,” it sounds like they did not get the joke.
I suspect he won’t mention it at all–at most he’ll simply acknowledge it, and give a “Good luck, Sis” which nobody could begrudge him. He rarely comments on house races unless something really funny or outlandish happens.
He’ll probably congratulate her if she wins, which as Simplicio notes isn’t likely.
If she wins, he’ll have her on his show, part of his “know your congressman” series.
There are probably several thousand rightwing fans who still haven’t figured out the joke.
Technically, it’s “[Better] Know a District”.
Both titles would have worked for the Anthony Weiner and Brad Sherman interviews.
You don’t really pass that stuff out, you spend it.
Honestly, I would expect Colbert to be more politically astute than whomever is managing a campaign for a long-shot house race like this. It’s not likely they are a political rock star.
I think having his sister run counts as funny and outlandish! But he does keep his family pretty separate from his persona: John Stewart mentions his wife and kids fairly often: Colbert, never. He will occasionally talk about a sibling or have one on, and he keeps things very superficial.
Well, it’s likely that they do “Know a District” better than Colbert, who is from around there but is now a New Yorker who sometimes visits. Even if the campaign manager is not from there, either, studying the political demographics of districts is what he does, it’s his profession. A mediocre doctor can treat you better than an amateur who has read a lot of medical books.
He just now did it!
Clip should be up on The Colbert Report website tomorrow.
Y’all realize of course that’s MY district, now. And I’m a member in good standing of the party.
We are trying to organize a Q&A session with her … sort of a town hall thing. Since Martin Skelly dropped out it’s pretty much her and about a billion republicans in the race. Gonna be an interesting one.
You gotta drag Stephen into the race somehow. Kicking and screaming, if necessary. In fact, kicking and screaming would be my preference. 
So who wants to join me in meeting Stephen Colbert? I’m a donor to the democratic party and just received an invitation to a fundraiser in which, for the right donation, I’ll get to meet, get a picture, and receive a signed book from Colbert.
Oh, and bowling and dinner!
It’s pricey, I know. But I am dead serious about this. I thought I’d ask if anyone else was interested in going.