Beyond entertainment?

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Steven Colbert is a comic genius. For the most part I agree with his politics (the man, not the character). I get a big kick out of his ridicule of the SuperPacs and negative advertising.

Now, he is running an ad in South Carolina suggesting that a vote for Hermain Cain is a vote for him. SC does not recognize write-in ballots, and obviously Colbert's name is not on the ballot. This way there will be some way of measuring how much people might want to cast a protest vote. But I wonder, does this actually affect the results at all. Are the same people who would make a protest vote by marking Cain the same ones would would write him as a protest? How detached from reality has Colbert's alter-ego become? Living in a very Republican county, I have been known to write-in fictional characters when no Democrat is running for an office. But Colbert's campaign seems just a little too polished. I guess some of the best comedy is that which makes us uneasy.

Regards,

D-Ray