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Movies generally see national politics in one of two ways.
The first is that everyone involved is eventually just as bad as everyone else, and it makes no difference what anyone does, because it's all dirty anyway. This is the thinking that underlies Primary Colors , Wag the Dog , The Candidate , and countless other films. The second is that politics is a fundamentally honorable line of work, but that The Good Guys have to be ever-vigilant, because it is so easy to be swept out to sea by The Bad Guys. The body of the film concerns Hanson's confirmation process. The main part of what is meant to be the political drama here comes from the emergence of allegations of wild sexual behavior by Senator Hanson while she was in college.