ABSTRACT
In Hollywood’s latest stab at politics, a movie called (what else?) The Campaign, Will Ferrell played a slick politician, Cam Brady, who admired his hair locks early in the film and boasted that “my hair could lift a car off a baby if it had to.” Brady looks like he is a shoo-in for a fifth term until he is caught making an obscene phone call, raising questions among the fat cats who support him. Not long after, a pot-bellied, ungainly challenger named Marty Huggins, played by Zach Galifianakis, announces his intention to challenge Cam Brady. As the campaign unfolds, the initially earnest Huggins become a typical pol, willing to use dirty tricks to embarrass Brady, who retaliates by seducing Huggins’s wife (which seems to increase Brady’s poll numbers). In the end, Huggins takes office, determined to serve the people. As the film closes, Huggins announces his commitment to work on an issue that he believes is critical to the community. But in doing so, he reveals that he is still clueless about just how he will serve his constituents. “Let’s get rid of daylight savings time because I hate when it gets darker earlier,” he tells an enthusiastic crowd of supporters.
