Jim Norton For President!

October 23, 2007 - 1:30 pm , By Todd - American University

Jim Norton

When Stephen Colbert announced his candidacy for President earlier this week it generated a wave of excitement. However, there’s one problem with Stephen; he’s not enough of a scumbag to be a politician. America needs someone who doesn’t care.

We need someone who speaks to the common man. We need someone who instead of using prepared statements by focus group, tells it like it is. That is why I nominate everyone’s favorite self proclaimed, meaty-breasted zilch, Jim Norton for President of the United States. Read More »

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Fastest Growing Groups in the History of Facebook

October 22, 2007 - 1:00 pm , By Steve - Seton Hall University

Stephen ColbertFacebook will be a powerful tool in the 2008 presidental race.

Although there’s no guarantee everyone who joins a candidate support group on Facebook will make it out and vote, it is a good way to create awareness.

Obama created a group called Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack) 9 months ago and it currently sits at 381,000 members. There is a anti-support group called Stop Hillary Clinton: (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary) started 8 months ago that currently has over 488,000+ users.

These were the strongest two political groups on the Facebook network until Stephen Colbert officially entered the 2008 presidential race on October 16th.

1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert was created on Wednesday Oct 17th at 5PM and quickly overtook Obama’s “1,000,00 Strong” in less than 5 days. Currently at 441,000 members the group will pass the Hilary group later this afternoon. Read More »

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