Does McKay have an affair?

It's clearly implied. We first see her in the scene where he meets Natalie Wood, and they clearly know each other. She whispers in his ear, maybe hands him something, and he says, "I know, I know."

Then when he's late for the meeting with the labor leader, the campaign manager stands in the hotel hallway looking for him and she comes out of a room and walks towards him. A few seconds later McKay comes out of the same room. It's not spelled out, but it's pretty straightforward.

hey, what course are you doing which would have the movie as its subject? I am very interested.

"PS: I would have voted for Crocker Jarmon (sp?), but I would have been appalled by his wheezy, over-the-hillness and would have figured he'd lose."

Its a different era; today, a guy like Crocker Jarmon would be slaughtered. But he was exactly the kind of guy the Republicans used to win with right here in California, during the 1960s, 70s, 80s, and early 90s). He reminds me a little of George Deukmejian (and for the record, no Governor since Deukmejian has been as good). Guys like Crocker Jarmon were in charge when this state was on top of the world. Now that its in the toilet, they aren't. I'll leave it for others to determine the causative degree within such a correlative. Guys like the ones the Jarmon character was portraying certainly had their minuses, but they also had their pluses. The crowd we see today is pretty much all minuses. And I'm not just talking Democrats. I worry I may have made a terrible mistake when I voted for Jerry Brown last month, but I know damn well I'd have been pulling the lever for a rotten viper, had I voted for Meg Whitman. I'll probably wind up wishing I'd voted for Chelene Nightingale of the American Independent Party, alas.


Been making IMDB board posts since the 90s, yet can't bring up any from before December of 2004.

jarmon gets my vote too.



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He wasn't zipping up his pants, but he was fiddling with the waistline, like he had just put them on and was getting them situated comfortably.

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I thought that was clearly implied. The scene at the hotel practically spells it out for the audience.

Infidelity -- The *beep* in his armor, like most men who are great in their careers. Great career men but total sh*theads in their personal life.

Rather than a full-on affair, it seemed that this silent, pretty woman(in the classic 1972, parted-down-the-middle long straight hair look...quite sexy in its day), kept stalking McKay and propositioning him through out the movie, and he kept turning her down...

...until the end, and he went for it in a hotel room at the exact same time he was about to sell out to the labor leader brought to him by his father. Bill was selling himself out in both directions(against his principles, against his wife) in the same moment and yet trying to pit them against each other. He made the labor leader wait while he had his fling. And his famous father notices it: "There are more important things than campaigns," he tells the labor leader.

Of note, though clearly Mrs. McKay will be making the trip to DC to live with her now-Senator husband...we DO see the groupie in a POV shot of McKay's supporters at the end. Maybe she will follow him...