So, last week’s joke on the presidential campaign trail was the announcement by Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s faux blowhard that he’s running for president in his native South Carolina. Just a joke, right?

Well, NBC handed over a prime chunk of broadcast platform to him Sunday, in the form of a full 15 minutes on “Meet the Press.” More interestingly, the Atlantic Monthly’s Joshua Green, tongue only partly stuck in his cheek, has picked some politicos’ brains and crunched some demographic data to show exactly how Colbert could conceivably end up with as many as a singleconvention delegate.

And as Colbert said Sunday, “if I get a delegate, it will be a brokered convention.”

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