Check out the new trailer for Swing Vote, the newest attempt by Kevin Costner to grab the national zeitgeist and turn it in a new direction regardless of its interest in any given subject matter.

You might remember: this man is the reason we care about baseball, global warming and the importance of post after the apocalypse.

If our Presidential choices were Dennis Hopper and Kelsey Grammer, we might take our time being courted too.

The thing about this preview is it set out thematically what the film needs to do: we need to care about this loser, then watch him rise to speak for the people as the politicians around him start to realize: “fuck, we’re just politicians now, not reformers, not legislators, just politicians.”

This sounds familiar to any Democrat, I would think.

The bad and ugly: no one in this cast is necessarily batting 1.000 with successful films recently, so though this is the time to bring up these issues in a tastefully done film, this film might miss the mark.

And then we’ll just forget about it, interesting plot or not.