Counting on your vote

I’m currently watching season 1 of Heroes, which is great if you weren’t that interested in your actual life anyway. My favorite character has to be Nathan Petrelli, the congressional candidate who discovers he can fly. He seems only mildly bemused by his newfound powers of flight, mainly concerned with its potential effects on his campaign.

At first I found this rather improbable, but then I realized that there are probably a lot of people in Washington who would behave the exact same way.