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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