Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Bud Johnson is man from Texico, Fact2: Texico has not had single political thought in head while being coaxed by eight-year-old daughter to take more of serious approach to life, Fact3: Molly sneaks into local polling place frustrated with father 's apathy toward voting, Fact4: candidate has majority in electoral college without New Mexico 's electoral votes, Fact5: popular vote is tied leaving Bud to decide next President of United States
Output (English): In a presidential election set in an alternate 2008, Bud Johnson Kevin Costner is a man from Texico, New Mexico, who is coasting through life and has not had a single political thought in his head, while being coaxed by his eightyearold daughter Molly Madeline Carroll to take more of a serious approach to life. Molly runs the household and sees an opportunity on election day to energize her father: frustrated with her fathers apathy toward voting, she sneaks into her local polling place and tries to vote on behalf of Bud. However, due to the voting machines being unplugged, the ballot is registered, but no decision is indicated on which candidate gets the vote. The entire election now comes down to this one mans vote. Neither candidate has a majority in the electoral college without New Mexicos electoral votes. The popular vote is tied for the two major candidates in New Mexico, leaving Bud to decide the next President of the United States. Bud gets wooed by candidates from both sides: the incumbent Republican, Andrew Carington Boone Kelsey Grammer, and his campaign manager, Martin Fox Stanley Tucci; and the opposing Democrat, Vermont Senator Donald Greenleaf Dennis Hopper and his campaign manager Art Crumb Nathan Lane. Buds actual opinions or lack thereof are misinterpreted by the media, causing the candidates to flipflop on several positions the Democrats take a prolife and antiillegal immigration stand, while the Republicans take a proenvironmental and progay marriage stand. As the film progresses, however, the two candidates are shown to move away from the cynical tactics forced on them by their advisers, and both gain Buds respect. In the end, he chooses to hold a final debate the day before he is set to recast his ballot. In a written speech, he confesses that he knows little to nothing about politics, or for that matter, life, and decides to ask questions people have sent to him in the mail. The film ends with Bud casting his vote, though for whom he voted is never revealed.