Whether that lead can be sustained in the immediate aftermath of a real-life bomb remains to be seen.
Not that they don't deserve it, but the overall spirit of his production, which is that of a screwball comedy, fits awfully uncomfortably with the aftermath of the real tragedy.
It is the fear that the public, faced with the very real aftermath of a tragedy, will be swayed by a speech, by an argument, by a photo op.
Mark Logue, the president of Thoroughbred Mortgage, an affiliate of Wells Fargo and Houlihan Lawrence, said that in the aftermath of the real estate market crash, appraisers felt pressure from skittish lenders to value homes conservatively.
In the aftermath of the real assassination, Condon tried to puncture any attempt to conflate the murder of Kennedy with his fictional account, but performed this public service in a magazine article unhelpfully headlined "Manchurian candidate in Dallas".
But he is also the highly respected writer/director of films that examine real events in unflinching fashion, including Bloody Sunday (2002), a dramatisation of the massacre of Irish civil rights protesters in 1972, and Omagh (2004), which examined the aftermath of the Real IRA bombing that killed 29 people in 1998.
My first guess, that this would all be a statement about the racist, haphazard vigilantism that spun out of control in the aftermath of the real Boston Bombings last year, was wrong.
But in November last year the Czech Republic's ambassador to Austria protested against "The First Day", a fictional account of the aftermath of a nuclear accident at Dukovany, a real-life Czech plant near Austria's border.
