He no longer has to fight an election which looks extremely difficult to win and leaves office with his political reputation at least partially salvaged.

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And if you know much about filmmaking you know how difficult it is to make something like that look the way it looks in this, which is terribly disorganized and yet not have these guys hurt each other while they're doing it.

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