Well, that president's son doesn't bother me that much when I have a big lead.
Not to be bragging, but right now my Prime Minister is 50 points ahead of the opposition! So I guess it's okay to have some points eaten away, yeah.
Regarding government supporter that do damage: I too use smear campaign. Don't know if this helps prevent things getting worse, because in other cases smearing someone will make his future actions negligeble.
When you get promoted some more, they increase everything else, but my pursuit teams have been lowered to only 2! They're the most useful teams I got!
To reiterate what I've learnt (yeah): just build up a neat big lead and if something really bad happens (like president's son kidnap) you'll still be ahead if your lead was like 20 points.
