'Swing Vote' plays on party stereotypes

Swing Vote,” an upcoming family comedy about a fictional presidential election starring Kevin Costner, is likely to draw ire from members of the two major political parties. The script plays off of stereotypes that annoy and inflame the party faithful on both sides.

Scheduled for release in August by the Walt Disney Co.'s Touchstone Pictures, the film depicts Republican strategists as nasty connivers without souls, willing to change their views on gay marriage and the environment just to get elected

Democratic campaigners are shown to be similarly hypocritical, spinelessly flip-flopping their long-held positions on abortion and immigration to win the election.


“Swing Vote” revolves around a low-life trailer park drunk (Costner) who, by virtue of his young daughter's idealism, becomes responsible for deciding the fate of a closely tied presidential election. Both the incumbent Republican commander-in-chief (Kelsey Grammer) and the milquetoast liberal Democrat challenger (Dennis Hopper) descend on his small town and vie for his vote by shamelessly courting him, even going so far as to change their strongly-held beliefs to align themselves with what they mistakenly believe are his views.

A small crowd at an advance screening on the Disney studio lot in Burbank, California this week laughed loudest when Hopper's character appears in political ads targeted directly at Costner's redneck character. In one of the commercials, Hopper talks to the camera while illegal immigrants race across the border behind him. In another spot, the Democrat appears in a playground while children vanish in wisps of black smoke as he talks about revoking Roe v. Wade. Grammer's Republican character also appears in mock ads, including one calling for the legalization of gay marriage.


Though the film skewers both Republicans and Democrats, the lion's share of zingers are aimed at the GOP characters. While the Democrats come across as lightweight challengers, the conservative figures are depicted as storm troopers in business suits — willing to pollute beautiful landscapes in exchange for corporate payoffs and happy to cajole, badger and even bribe Costner's character in exchange for his critical vote. If the Democrats come across as merely hapless, most of the Republicans are depicted as heartless.

'Swing Vote' plays on party stereotypes - Jeffrey Ressner - Politico.com

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I don't care for Costner. That aside I think some may be seeing politics here when in fact its just the nature of comedy. Republicans generally speaking are perceived to be more straight laced and proper. Like a straight man in a comedy team. So they are going to get the most jabs for that reason.

But maybe its a great left wing plot. Maybe the right could get Rupert Murdoch to help finance some anti Democrat movies.

I don't see the Republicans that way. I see them with their hands out and bills for big business in the other. As long as I can remember they were the party of big business.

Now the Dem's are competing with them. A party of the people before Regan. But no different today in my opinion. They fight for politcal power thats all and the hand outs help them.

But come August I might remember to view the show, the best will be the opener. Besides th eNation needs a laugh in this process don't you think?