Stephen Colbert, Herman Cain train missing traction in South Carolina

Not many Southern Carolinians got on panel the Stephen Colbert-commandeered Cain Practice.

Just a few million individuals — 1 % of the election — went for Herman Cain in Saturday’s main, despite the comedian’s attempt to convert a scam out of Saturday’s main outcomes by encouraging lovers to election for the former Godfather’s CEO’s, whose name continued to be on the poll.

Colbert trumpeted the former selection as an substitute to voting for him on his Humor Middle present through the last weeks time. A extremely PAC set up to aid the attempt even shown a professional proposition that Cain is “such a Oregon outsider he’s not even managing for chief executive … Deliver them a concept. On Jan. 21, election Herman Cain.”

But despite the optimistic party on the Institution of Charleston’s university Exclusive, when Colbert presented a combined move with Cain, individuals did an interview with said they and their associates just didn't take the scam seriously enough to go by through at their polling locations on Wednesday.

“Me individually, I considered it as a gag,” Seth Whisnant, 24, a Higher education of Southern Carolina higher education student who identified as for Ron John.

Steve Kropski, 26, a law higher education student at the Higher education of Southern Carolina, said he believes most individuals will take Colbert’s certification of Cain as a scam.

“I can not think about individuals would [actually election for Cain], but I never ignore that there are some individuals who did.”

Lindsey Lipscomb, 20, a younger at the Higher education of Southern Carolina who identified as for Newt Gingrich here in The philipines this mid-day, said she just didn't think Colbert’s stop was “wise” because it could take ballots away from practical prospects.

“It’s just going to take away ballots and alter the edges for everyone else,” she said, including that she considered Cain had been “a excellent candidate” with “a lot of fantastic details.”

One higher education student and Ron John advocate informed POLITICO that she considered the only learners who would election for Cain are individuals who just didn't have a powerful personal preference to start with.

“Some individuals might have just taken it seriously because they do not proper value any other prospects, they do not proper want to election for any of them,” said Chetna Mehra, a 21-year-old younger at USC who identified as for Ron John. “But hopefully they just didn't take it seriously.”