When Underwood addresses the press conference to announce the release of the two hostages, he says they were rescued at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Since Standard Time resumes in the US on the first Sunday of November, the earliest this could be would be November 1st, which would be only two days before the election. Later, when Conway reacts to the breaking of the Underwood scandal, he tells his staff to wait 'for a few days' to see what the consequences are. Not plausible. Continuity checkers missed that 'Standard Time' in the script; should have been Daylight Time.