Statistician: Some 'Truthiness' to 'Colbert Bump' - America's Election HQ

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Fowler used Federal Election Commission data on all individual contributions made to U.S. House campaigns between Jan. 1, 2005, and October 30, 2007, and used them to find matches for 47 candidates who appeared on "The Colbert Report" segment, "Better Know a District." He compared both the number of donations and the amount of money received by each "Colbert candidate" to their match.

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