‘Colbert Report’: Two Candidates, One Dixville Notch
This just in, sort of, from New Hampshire: It's Mitt Romney for the Republican win. But this time, it was Jon Huntsman who was hot on his heels at that political prognosticating epicenter, Dixville Notch.This just in, sort of, from New Hampshire: It’s Mitt Romney for the Republican win. But this time, it was Jon Huntsman who was hot on his heels at that political prognosticating epicenter, Dixville Notch.
The narrowness of the front-runner’s lead doesn’t matter to his rivals, though, who are now “piling on Romney like Newt Gingrich on a younger, healthier wife,” as Stephen Colbert so eloquently put it Tuesday night. Next up: South Carolina. –KA
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He's filling the seat long commanded by David Letterman, which is a gigantic deal in and of itself, but whether Colbert's version of "The Late Show" gets off the ground ultimately has to do with whether he can fly solo—on his own terms.
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