The Colbert Report

Shame-Based Campaigning

Season 9 • 11/05/2012

The New Yorker reports that guilt tactics mobilize voters best.

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Sign Off - American Red Cross - Hurricane Sandy
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Help out Hurricane Sandy victims by texting REDCROSS to 90999.
11/01/2012
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05:57

David Byrne & St. Vincent
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New York rockers David Byrne and St. Vincent discuss Hurricane Sandy, brass ensembles and their collaborative album, "Love This Giant."
11/01/2012
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Tip/Wag - Constant Documentation & Billy Graham
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Swedish inventors design a clip-on camera that clicks every 30 seconds, and Reverend Billy Graham disencultifies Mormonism after meeting with Mitt Romney.
11/01/2012
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Hurricane Sandy Traffic Ordeal
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While millions face power loss after the hurricane, nothing compares to Stephen's insufferable morning commute.
11/01/2012
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Intro - 11/1/12
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New York deals with Hurricane Sandy's aftermath, Mitt Romney scores an unlikely endorsement, and David Byrne and St. Vincent plug their album, "Love This Giant."
11/01/2012
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Nate Silver
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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
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04:17

Colbert Super PAC - Severe Candidate Warning
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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
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Sign Off - Go Vote!
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Stephen urges Colbert Nation to go out and vote.
11/05/2012
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05:10

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

"Razor Tight" Presidential Election
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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
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Shame-Based Campaigning
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President Obama and Mitt Romney remain tied among likely voters, so both camps use data mining to turn out the vote.
11/05/2012
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06:33

The Colbert Report Election 2012 - Too Close to Call
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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
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Senate Races & State Referenda
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Key Senate elections disprove old political adages, and Los Angeles County decides on burdensome regulations for the porn industry.
11/06/2012
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Sign Off - Election Reflections
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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
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Andrew Sullivan
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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
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02:23

The Colbert Report Election 2012 - Who Will Replace Obama? '012
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Stephen celebrates his mom's birthday and can't wait to palp the palpable election night excitement.
11/06/2012
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04:25

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

Doris Kearns Goodwin
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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
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04:20

Wind Power's Health Hazards
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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
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01:59

Nontraditional Non-White America
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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
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Intro - 11/7/12
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Stephen copes with the election results.
11/07/2012
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