You really couldn’t make this stuff up if you tried. And no, you didn’t stumble onto The Onion’s website by accident. This is a “legitimate poll” – well, as legitimate as any poll ever really is when conducted by PPP. One can’t help but wonder whether Huntsman will receive a bump from his finish in New Hampshire or if the bigger bump will go to Colbert for his coverage of the contest.
POLITICO: This is not a joke, but it’s kind of funny: Stephen Colbert would edge out Jon Huntsman in the South Carolina Republican primary.
That’s according to a Public Policy Polling poll out Tuesday that found the late-night comic picking up 5 percent of the vote, compared with Huntsman’s 4 percent.
On the serious side, Mitt Romney had 27 percent, Newt Gingrich 23 percent, Rick Santorum 18 percent, while Ron Paul came in with 8 percent and Rick Perry 7 percent.
[...] represent but have absolutely nothing to do with… Mr. Colbert – who just last week was polling better than Jon Huntsman in South Carolina – was also on This Week with George Stephanopolous Sunday morning. [...]