The Colbert Report

Sign Off - Election Reflections

Season 9 • 11/06/2012

Stephen offers post-election advice for crushed and elated voters.

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05:01

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Nate Silver

New York Times blogger Nate Silver shares his book, "The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail -- but Some Don't."
11/05/2012
04:17

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Colbert Super PAC - Severe Candidate Warning

A vortex of pandering threatens undecided female voters, and Mitt Romney proves how influential Colbert Super PAC has been in the election.
11/05/2012
00:07

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Sign Off - Go Vote!

Stephen urges Colbert Nation to go out and vote.
11/05/2012
02:12

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Shame-Based Campaigning

President Obama and Mitt Romney remain tied among likely voters, so both camps use data mining to turn out the vote.
11/05/2012
05:10

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Shame-Based Campaigning - Sasha Issenberg

Journalist Sasha Issenberg explains how campaigns exploit thousands of data points to guilt-trip people to the polls.
11/05/2012
03:48

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"Razor Tight" Presidential Election

Election commentators botch a metaphor, and New York Times analyst Nate Silver says that Barack Obama has an 86.3% chance of winning.
11/05/2012
06:33

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The Colbert Report Election 2012 - Too Close to Call

The Colbert Report projects that CNN has projected that "Animal Planet" has predicted that the winner of the 2012 presidential election is Barack Obama.
11/06/2012
03:37

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Senate Races & State Referenda

Key Senate elections disprove old political adages, and Los Angeles County decides on burdensome regulations for the porn industry.
11/06/2012
06:26

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Andrew Sullivan

Editor Andrew Sullivan believes that Europe will follow Barack Obama's national employment strategies and hopes for a civil war within the Republican Party.
11/06/2012
02:23

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The Colbert Report Election 2012 - Who Will Replace Obama? '012

Stephen celebrates his mom's birthday and can't wait to palp the palpable election night excitement.
11/06/2012
02:05

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Sign Off - Election Reflections

With the election over, does America lance the boil of hyper-partisanship or let it callus over into a civic abscess lodged in the national soul?
11/06/2012
04:25

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Four More Years of Hopey Change

Even though Barack Obama lost in big red states, he is reelected due to a technicality called the Constitution.
11/07/2012
04:58

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Doris Kearns Goodwin

Pulitzer Prize winner Doris Kearns Goodwin tells one of Abraham Lincoln's dirty stories and quotes some of history's presidential losers.
11/07/2012
04:20

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Wind Power's Health Hazards

Wind turbine syndrome might just seem like a collection of unrelated health complaints to the untrained eye, but untrained eye is also a symptom of wind turbine syndrome.
11/07/2012
01:59

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Nontraditional Non-White America

Papa Bear Bill O'Reilly claims that the presidential election wasn't decided by a "traditional" America, and MSNBC's Donny Deutsch reveals changing Senate demographics.
11/07/2012
00:17

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Intro - 11/7/12

Stephen copes with the election results.
11/07/2012
04:21

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Polling Irregularities & Vote-by-Phone Scam

Liberals across the country pull tricks at polling sites while robo-calls inform seniors that they can vote a day late.
11/07/2012
00:12

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Sign Off - Solace in a Bottle

Stephen nurses a Bud Light Lime in silence.
11/07/2012
07:43

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Difference Makers - Stephen Dick Jr.

New York State slams an exotic dance club with back taxes, but owner Stephen Dick Jr. petitions for an arts exemption.
11/08/2012
02:04

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Nor'easter & Mitt Romney

The nor'easter is so powerful it wiped out the region's supply of t's and h's, and voters continue to stand with Mitt until Florida is counted.
11/08/2012
00:34

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Intro - 11/8/12

Art is a three-letter word for something unfortunate, scientists study friendship, and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow skips her show for The Report.
11/08/2012
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