“Swing Vote” is surely swinging for the fences.

July 16, 2008

So yet another Kevin Costner movie is set to be released on August 1. Swing Vote looks to be one of those movies with a totally unimpressive plot and ranks up there with Waterworld and The Postman in quality…or lack thereof.

Directed by Joshua Michael Stern, the premise is that by some weird happenstance, Kevin Costner’s character, Bud Johnson, is the last person who is courted by the incumbent president and his opponent and can turn the election into a victory for some lucky candidate.

Is this possible in the United States? No! It’s not possible. The system has enough checks and balances to ensure that there will never be a tie in the general election. Never will you have 100% of ALL registered voters casting their ballots, nor will the popular vote result in a tied electoral vote. In fact, if the electoral vote IS tied, then doesn’t the House of Representatives cast the tie-breaking votes and winds up selecting our next president?

Kevin Costner’s movies have started to stink over the past few years and this is probably one more notch on his belt of movies he should NOT have been in. The plots are absolutely ridiculous and I’m shocked that Kevin doesn’t know how implausible that it could be. Why would the two candidates suck up to the “sole” voter anyways? That’s like saying that 99.99% of ALL registered voters had cast their ballots and now the popular vote rested on one person…totally ridiculous. There are possibly much better plots. How the hell did this get through the studio?

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