Held Colbert, who grew up in South Carolina, staged a fake based on the College of Charleston, and urged the public to vote for former Republican President Herman Cain Hope, who also spoke at the rally.
Cain suspend his campaign in December amid allegations of sexual harassment and adultery, but is still on the ballot for the South Carolina primary on Saturday.
"Anyone who knows me knows that I have believed in a letter from Herman Cain for several days," said the original crowd of Charleston. "I vote for Herman Cain Herman Cain is my fault."
Part of the fun Colbert made a serious observation about the growth of Super PAC new financing organizations spend large sums of money on ads attacking candidates. Political action committees, or periodicals, and groups with great influence in American politics that are legally separate from the candidates. The Supreme Court ruling in 2010 allowed companies and unions to raise unlimited funds to buy ads that encourage or discourage the election of certain candidates.
"In light of this tragic shortage of corporate influence in our government, and five value, and unelected judges in the Supreme Court ruled that corporations have a constitutional right to spend money without limits in political discourse," said Colbert.
Supported by the gospel choir who took part in some cases, sing, "Companies and individuals," the phrase made famous by Republican Mitt Romney is the favorite.
And stop the crowd, composed mostly of college students, according to a term of up to four hours to get to the event. They carried banners saying "Get on the train of Cain" and "control the bear population" and includes two animal rights activists dressed as pigs.
"Stephen Colbert making politics more accessible, and makes things real," said Katherine Muller, 18, Dallas, Texas.
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