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• Continuity: Election Day is Tuesday. The next day, Bud is told he is certified to re-vote in 10 days, which would be a week from Saturday (Wednesday + 10 days). The next week, Tuesday is "Take your Father to School Day." That day that Bud visits the President one last time. That night, he crams for the debate, which is the next evening, Wednesday. Then he votes the day after that, Thursday, which is actually 8 days later.
  
  
• Continuity: When Molly confesses to Kate, the phone is ringing. When Kate watches the "hidden camera" replay, we do not hear the phone.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: The power pole outside Bud's trailer has there is no power meter, even though wires go to the trailer.
  
  

• Continuity: When the media first show up at Bud's trailer, he looks out through a window on the right side (from the inside the way he is facing) of the door to his trailer and pulls down the left blind. When the camera changes to an outside view of the trailer, he pulls down the same blind, and the one beside it is already down, as though the sides changed positions.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When Bud wonders why so many people are outside his trailer, he tells Molly to turn on the TV. The screen shows Fox News Channel, but the TV has rabbit ears. Satellite TV subscribers sometimes need an antenna to view local channels.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bud is driving Richard Petty's race car, he asks Molly to get a photo of him with his chin out, so he "looks like a hero." He moves the the helmet-microphone off of his chin. In the next shot, it's back.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bud gets on stage at the party with Mr. Greenleaf, the woman directly behind Molly taps her on the head to signal when she should depart the scene.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When the election officials visit Bud and Molly for the second time, Bud asks if they can move the news people further back, because they did't get much sleep the night before. One of the election officials turns and signals the agent with ear piece standing behind them to go sort it out. As he walks off, he lifts his left sleeve to speak into the microphone, then quickly switches to his right sleeve once he realizes his mistake.
  
  
• Errors in geography: Texico, NM is near the Texas/New Mexico border, so you would not have seen the mountain range in the background.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When Bud and his daughter are first riding in their pick-up truck, the transmission is clearly in park.
  
  
• Continuity: When Bud and the President are talking on Air Force One one of the glasses disappears from the table and in the next shot both glasses are there again.
  
  
• Factual errors: The State Police vehicles shown in the movie have the traditional RED/BLUE color scheme. Real NMSP patrol cars have only red.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: New Mexico State Police Troopers are seen wearing regular neck ties when in actuality the State Police uniform uses bow ties.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: A large number of packages are delivered to Bud by a UPS driver, but in the next scene, letters with USPS stamps are shown. While UPS does not deliver First Class mail, the two scenes do not happen in the same setting; they only show that Bud is getting a lot of packages and mail, via different couriers.
  
  
• Plot holes: Ex-Felons in New Mexico are permanently banned from voting. During the movie Bud is reminded by his daughter that he has one strike left, meaning he was a two time felon. This would make his vote illegal.
  
  

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