Colbert urges s.c. voters to back cain
CHARLESTON, s.c. — Comedian Stephen Colbert, who says he’s running for president of “The United States of South Carolina,” is urging voters in today’s presidential primary to cast their ballots for former Republican hopeful Herman Cain.
The star of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” appeared with Cain at a rally Friday at the College of Charleston. Colbert told a crowd of more than 3,000 that he’s “believed in the message of Herman Cain for several days now.”
“Herman Cain is a business leader. Herman Cain is a family man. Herman Cain is an outsider. In fact, he’s such an outsider he is not even running for president anymore,” Colbert gushed.
GOP rivals’ visit to BBQ spot could get spicy •GREENVILLE, s.c. — Rival presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are set to appear at the same barbecue restaurant at the same time on the day of the South Carolina primary.
Both campaigns say they will not change schedules that have the dueling candidates visiting Tommy’s Country Ham House in Greenville at 10:45 a.m. today.
Paul’s message in S.C. unclear •GRANITEVILLE, s.c. — Supporters of Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul didn’t seem to mind Friday that he has campaigned less aggressively in South Carolina than he did in other early voting states.
But it was far from clear during a whirlwind circuit around the state whether the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman would send a message here as his outsider candidacy did in Iowa and New Hampshire.
“I took a day off of the campaign trail,” Paul told an audience of about 200 outside Aiken. “I wanted to make sure I was recorded voting against the national debt limit.”
Union launches $1 million anti-Romney ad push in Fla.•TAMPA, fla. — In what is organized labor’s first major investment in the Republican presidential primary, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is spending almost $1 million in Florida on a television ad attacking Mitt Romney’s business career.
The new ad links Romney’s business career to that of Florida Gov. Rick Scott: “Corporate greed. Medicare fraud. Sound familiar?”
Romney and his allies have had the Florida airwaves to themselves for nearly a month.Denver Post wire services
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