Tell your husband to stop taking political hints from sportswriters.
All this movie does is give red meat to the rabid side of the Democratic Party, which is in nominal control at DNC headquarters for the time being. Its not going to swing a significant portion of the voters.
The largest percentage in decades has already decided who they will vote for come November, according to all the polls. Those who are still "undecided" are so apathetic to the political process, its very doubtful they will go to see a politically motivated film under any circumstances.
And in about another five days or so, the articles detailing all the factual errors contained in Moore's latest rant will be "the headline" as it relates to this movie.
I tried to assure him, but it has been depressing. All weekend we have been treated to local news coverage of the people lining up to see this movie and we live in one of the most conservative areas of the country. A political science professor from Missouri Valley College was interviewed after the movie and was unqualified in his support of the movie's message. That was more depressing to me than the Whitlock column.