He promises healthcare improvements bill to common folk on Friday, and yet reinforces old alliances with insurance companies who pay him dearly on Tuesday - "killing the bill in committees when nobody's looking." .
Bulworth builds on misconceptions about its characters and forces the audience into wrong conclusions about them. Throughout the film, a sturdily built man in a black leather jacket, wearing large shades, with dark oily hair, and a scary grin is on Senator's heels everywhere he goes. Jay Bulworth perceives this suspicious figure as his eventual killer and panics at the very sight of him. Scriptwriters effectively mislead both the audience and the Senator into thinking that a picture-taker is a life-taker.
Yet, the "actual" killer is Nina, who has always been by Bulworth's ever since he met her at the church. She cunningly seduces him and acts as his mentor, giving him advices on how to avoid a killer, while all this time she has been plotting to lure him into a lethal trap. Another misconception is about her intelligence - even though, she grew up in the Projects, Nina turns out to be a well-educated person who surprises the Senator with her articulate speech on black leaders. Age is another factor that is miscalculated; Nina appears to Bulworth as a young teenage girl, however, as the audience learns later she is already twenty-six years old. The Senator on the other hand seems much older than his actual age. .
Senator's wife also appears to be different from who she really is. She seems to be a very loving and caring wife, who shows up for every significant political or social event, gives flattering interviews about her husband, and supports him in every possible way. However, as the movie progresses, the viewers are presented with a striking reality - not only she doesn't care about her husband and plays a role of a loving wife just for the media purposes, but she initiates an affair with another politician and cheats on Bulworth behind his back.