The Campaign is a 2012 American political satire comedy film directed by Jay Roach, written by Shawn Harwell and Chris Henchy and stars Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as two North Carolinians vying for a seat in Congress.

Democratic Congressman Cam Brady, who has run unopposed for the 14th district of North Carolina, is exposed when he has an affair with a supporter that is heard on a phone call, damaging his upcoming campaign for a fifth term.

With eight weeks to go before the election, Glenn and Wade Motch, two corrupt businessmen persuade tour guide Marty Huggins to run as Cam's opposition as a Republican nominee.

Marty meets with the Motch brothers soon afterwards, but learns of their "insourcing" plans with China; they intend to turn the 14th district into a factory complex and import Chinese workers in order to reduce shipping costs.

The brothers point out that everything they have done is legal under Citizens United v. FEC but are arrested due to their association with Wattley, who is in fact an international fugitive.

Principal photography for the film, originally titled Dog Fight, began November 14, 2011, and continued through February 2012 in New Orleans, Hammond, and on the West Bank.

[8] Ferrell's Cam Brady character has been widely characterized as a parody of former North Carolina Democratic Senator and 2004 vice-presidential nominee John Edwards.

The site's critical consensus states: "Its crude brand of political satire isn't quite as smart or sharp as one might hope in an election year, but The Campaign manages to generate a sufficient number of laughs thanks to its well-matched leads.

[18] Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film an A− and described it as "one of the best comedies of the year" where "the material is offensively funny, but the laughs are very consistent".