Yeah, this is why I prefer Peter to Nathan. Nathan had his great moments with Hiro and with the flying thing on his own, but when he's around Peter he's punching a lot of buttons I have regarding using the people around you without giving anything back in return and jerking people around using the "for their own good" excuse. Peter has his braindead moments but at least he's on board with the whole public service heroic ideal that Nathan is ironically trying to project as part of his political campaign.

A thought I've had regarding "Petrelli wins in landslide" is that it's part of the nuked-NYC future they're trying to prevent. Nathan's storyline is suggesting to me a crisis point where he has to choose between being a real hero (or at least helping and/or saving Peter) or being a politico, and he winds up redeeming himself by sacrificing his career to save the world.