I don't get why the writers would think we'd give a damn who wins the presidency? We barely know any of the candidates outside of superficial descriptions, it's been a peripheral plot point at the most and the whole show exists in a privileged bubble unaffected by whoever's in the Oval Office.
It’s literally a whole episode on how the media controls the news nowadays.
We know that there’s a Democrat (who appears to be flawed but at least has a spine) and a Facist. It need go no deeper.
An entire media family, among the richest people on earth, are choosing the next president. Not reporting on it, but deciding. And not for some greater good. But to secure more money, power, and influence.
It’s a microcosm of the entire show.
I think it was appropriately disjointed and messy and tense. The kids are just playing at being adults. Logan was a piece of shit so this kind of scenario was second nature. He would have been fielding calls. Not making them. The three little invertebrates begging for attention was telling.
Roman just wants to win. Shiv (for once) didn’t want to cross a principled line. Kendal, as always, say on the fence and ended up with an arsehole full of splinters.
It’s an illustration of power and its ability to corrupt. The election was the lens, not the subject matter.