During what time period does the novel, Who Is Rich, take place?

References to the presidential election campaign fought between Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Barack Obama definitively set the action of the novel in the summer of 2012, when that campaign was just coming to its climax. The time and the campaign are notable because Romney embodied much of what Rich resents about Republicans in general and Amy's Republican-linked life in particular - the wealth, the moral and social conservatism, and the self-servingness of their political and cultural values.