Swing Vote mock YouTube vids

Real political candidates aren't the only ones using YouTube to sway political opinion. For the upcoming film Swing Vote, mock Republican and Democratic ad campaigns paint the film's sardonic message. In an effort to court one man's deciding vote the Republican incumbent President Boone (Kelsey Grammer) and his wry advisor (Stanley Tucci) determine that Bud (Kevin Costner), an everyman if there ever was one, leans to the left. The Republicans adopt a friendly gay marriage stance with Boone’s next campaign spot. Meanwhile the Democratic challenger Donald Greenleaf (Dennis Hopper, Costner’s nemesis in Waterworld) takes an anti-abortion position and decries an unguarded border situation because his manager (Nathan Lane) thinks Bud fields to the right.
Asked whether anyone on the production saw parallels with the current Obama/McCain race Costner reminded the film was shot a year ago. “Nobody was calculating in the first place. If this movie could only work in election year then it’d be a failure. It has to work five years from now. For me it had the kind of emotional bottom I like,” Costner told Free Press Houston at a recent junket. A full version of this story appears in Free Press Houston's August 1 issue.