Template:Did you know nominations/United States Senate special election in South Carolina, 2014

United States Senate special election in South Carolina, 2014

 * ... that Stephen Colbert (pictured) led poll respondents when asked who should be appointed to South Carolina's open United States Senate seat prior to its 2014 special election?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Andy McDonald (politician)
 * Comment: Not the most artfully written hook, so I'm open to any rewriting. It'd be nice to make the bolded article the subject, but I'm not sure how to do that in 200 characters.

Created/expanded by Muboshgu (talk), JoeM3120 (talk). Nominated by Muboshgu (talk) at 23:47, 10 December 2012 (UTC)


 * Symbol question.svg New enough, long enough, well-referenced, no close paraphrasing seen. QPQ done. I like Stephen Colbert as the subject of the hook; there isn't much else to say about a special election. Here's an alt hook:
 * ALT1: ... that a Public Policy Polling poll found Stephen Colbert (pictured) to be the most popular candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from South Carolina, which will be decided in a 2014 special election? Yoninah (talk) 20:21, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah I guess Colbert will have to be the subject, which of course means his page will get a bigger page view spike than the nominated article. Oh well. ALT1 is nicely written, but I'm not sure the word "candidate" works, since the question asked by the poll was who Haley should appoint, not who people would vote for. I guess I'm okay with it if others are. – Muboshgu (talk) 20:39, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * How about the hook:
 * ALT2: ... that South Carolina's U.S. Senate seat for the 2014 special election should be filled by Stephen Colbert (pictured), according to a Public Policy poll?
 * (heh, I used to live there and Colbert would be more popular than a Newt ...) &mdash; Sctechlaw (talk) 03:45, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Symbol confirmed.svg Thanks for pinch-hitting, Sctechlaw. Your hook is catchy and the hook ref is verified. ALT2 good to go. Yoninah (talk) 17:35, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes! Very good! – Muboshgu (talk) 18:09, 22 December 2012 (UTC)