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Reuters tells us:
As Jon Stewart winds down his 19-year stint as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, he and Stephen Colbert sit at the peak of American punditry despite their left-leaning view of life, the universe and everything.
In an era of diffused voices and divided politics, they are well known, widely admired, and speak to Americans in ways that no one else does, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
This poll tracks 10 different pundits. Split evenly between conservative and liberal. It is also worth noting that four of the five on the liberal side are comedians, while none of the conservative pundits are trained to tell jokes.
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(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Monday May 11 2015, @06:04PM
What is somewhat sad is that beyond my mayor, city council, and school board there isn't a single elected official that I voted for that holds office, and there hasn't been since Bush left office. I still bought the BS of wasting my vote if I didn't vote for one of the major party candidates when I voted for Bush but even that was the typical hold your nose and fill in the bubble. Of those that are there to supposedly represent my views in higher office the most competent one seems to be one of the more divisive figures in the US senate but has kept a low profile. I don't think the governor of my state could find his own ass with both hands, a map, and a compass. My other US senator is locally referred to as the senator of small things while my rep in the US House is a former nuclear football carrying for Regan war hawk. My rep to the state house is a right wing bible pounder who wants to legislate out of the good book and my senator to the state senate seems to be fairly decent even if he does used the think of the children or throw more money at it a bit too much.
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