Perfect analogy. Colonel Tye (a cylon as it turns out) rigging the election for a president that would be soft on cylons even though they ended up destroying their entire society.
By the way, Amun...If I ever get pissed off at you and we start going to blows in a thread somewhere, point me to this so I can recall that you "get it" and are a BSG fan. Nobody else here gives a shit that Tye is a Cylon, and that it is one of the greatest Sci-Fi shows ever written for TV.