Stephen Colbert will run only as a Democrat in South Carolina because he’s cheap:

The South Carolina native will not file papers as a Republican because the $35,000 required to get on the GOP ballot is apparently too high a threshold. “They priced us out of range,” the source told CNN. The South Carolina Democratic Party demands a candidate pay $2,500 or garner 3,000 signatures to get on the ballot. Surrogates of “The Colbert Report” star will file the hand-signed papers at state party headquarters before the November 1 filing deadline.