Can you believe the Democrat he beat in Bogota has got many NJ Democrats like Thurman Hart convinced that the movie was a propaganda piece for Lonegan? It's true the movie didn't make him look like a good candidate at that stage in his life, either. But it didn't come out until well after the election, and Lonegan comes across as just awful.

The producer at the showing we went to did say that people's impression of Lonegan in the movie was very variable and highly correlated with their politics. But I can't imagine many independents would find him palatable at all. He seems to personify the slickness that independents often despise in politicians at the same time as being extreme.