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South Carolina, What Could Have Been?

By Stephen Colbert

January 29, 2008

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After the South Carolina primary, Nation blogger Cora Currier asked "what would've gone down?" if Stephen Colbert stayed on the ballot. Inspired, Colbert looks back at what could have been in the Palmetto State.

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