An intriguing story about a presidential campaign in all its details and intricacies. A whole cast of characters illuminate different aspects of campaigning and politics in general. Despite all this, the story doesn’t quite achieves its own potential. Several storylines go no where or get tied up in an unsatisfying way. At times, one isn’t even sure where the story is going since there are so many twists and turns that feel baseless instead of surprising. The romantic entanglements are overly convoluted and the reconciliation between Henry and Daisy is completely unrealistic and rushed. On a more form focused level, both the political slang and regional accents are annoying and don’t add any real value to the book. Knowing the author is white added to my discomfort about the way race was written in this book. Most unsatisfying about this story that had everything in itself to entertain me was that no character was allowed to be decent or god forbid good. They introduced them, build them up and almost immediately tore them down. The cynical world view presented that no one is a good person or even an average one is deeply uncomfortable to me.