"The Race"

...is a novel by Richard North Patterson about a young Republican senator, Corey Grace, in a primary race for the presidency with the Reverend Bob Christy ("Christ-y" is not a stretch!), an evangelical leader of the Christian right, and Senator Rob Marotta of Pennsylvania, a prototypical political sell-out, backed by the whale of communications, Alex Rohr ("Roar"?), a man for whom enough is never enough.

Grace is "our" kind of Republican: a man who does not toe the party line, who tells the truth as he perceives it and who cares more about the country than himself. An intelligent centrist.

Oh, he's divorced and he meets and begins dating a liberal African-American Hollywood actress!

Lots of elements for a good story there! I liked it a lot. We need to find more Corey Graces to run for office and dump the party hacks, the extremists and the ones who sell out to money and power to gain office. Amen!