Stephen Colbert Peers Over the Fiscal Cliff

"Some Republicans are abandoning the anti-tax pledge as fast as their abandoning… uh, what's his name? Don't help me, don't help me, don't help me… uh, Ripp Flambé?" – Stephen Colbert

Coverage continues with the National Review's Reihan Salam after the jump.

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Rachel Maddow Is Sleepless and Gleeful on the Colbert Report

"I do feel like there's an important role to play in disabusing people of their fantasies that do not comport with what's going on in the real world." – Rachel Maddow

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Nate Silver and Stephen Colbert on Polls, Pundits and Politicians

Stephen Colbert discusses the simplicity of political prognostication per popularity polling with FiveThirtyEight's Nate Silver, who — as of time of publishing — is not a witch…

Watch live Election Night coverage from The Daily Show and The Colbert Report tonight starting at 11/10c.

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Join Comedy Central's Indecision Election Night for Live Result Coverage!

I can say, without a shred of hyperbole, that this upcoming Tuesday night will be the most important and consequential several hours of human civilization in the history of ever. Or at least top one billion. What better way to watch the 2012 presidential election results roll in than with Comedy Central and Indecision?

* Watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as it presents "Election Night 2012: This Ends Now" at 11p/10c.

* And then The Colbert Report's presentation of "Election 2012: A Nation Votes, Ohio Decides; The Re-Presidenting of America: Who Will Replace Obama? '012!" at 11:30p/10:30c

* Follow @indecision on Twitter as we livetweet results from the first early poll results to the final announcements of the night's winners and losers.

* Download our free Election Companion App for iPad and iPhone and add your own two cents to our thoughts and reactions as the waves of news crash against our TV screens.

* And check in right here on Indecision all day and all night as we respond to the funny, the silly, the sad and the unsettling twists and turns of this elections finality.

So, run away and join the political circus with us on Tuesday night. We promise a minimal amount of elephant dung stench.

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Stephen Colbert Has an Offer for Donald Trump

"Mr. Trump, I will write you an offer for one million dollars from Colbert Super PAC — you know I've got it — to the charity of your choice, anything — Save the Children, Feed the Children, Put the Children on Child Apprentice, whatever — one million actual dollars, if you will let me…"

Well, you really should just hear the offer from Stephen himself. It's totally worth it…

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