Someone Please Figure This Mess Out Soon | The West Wing 

Yeah that makes me laugh every time

Well this was...prophetic.

It would take at least six hours for AFO to get Bartleby to San Diego for the convention.

Exactly, no one WANTED to see Bartlett leave office.

It would've been entirely legal for delegates to vote for Bartlett.

well Sorkin came back for the seventh season, fifth season was just bad apart from the Supremes, goddamn NBC management didn't know what they were doing when they forced Sorkin out.

@@woodwyrm Sorkin didn't "come back" for the seventh season -- he merely appeared in the inauguration scene. He had no writing involvement in the show beyond the early episodes of the fifth season, which he advised on informally to get the replacement team past the cliffhanger he'd bequeathed to them. Judgements of the fifth season suffered/suffer mainly from viewer confirmation bias -- the quality of the writing barely dipped, if viewed objectively, despite fans' expectations that it couldn't possibly go on without Sorkin. The first four seasons are regarded by fans as if they were close to Shakespearean perfection, but there are plenty of glitches visible, if one looks. They were forgiven at the time, and since, because the overall quality was so unprecedented. And to say he was "forced out" by NBC management ignores the well-known reasons for his departure: dissatisfaction about a salary restructure (which affected not only him), plus, and mainly, personal burnout due to the massive amount of cocaine required to be the show's principle writer. The guy was a mess by the end of season four. (And the cast have often spoken (with rueful affection) of the chaotic conditions they were working under with him leading the writing -- scripts arriving late, on-set revisions, etc.) Sorkin has real genius when it comes to creating and scripting political dramas, no doubt about it, but he has his flaws, and the writing team that followed him was an extremely capable group of top professionals. Look at season five with an objective eye, and that's borne out. IMHO 😊

So, you want party officials in a backroom choose their next nominee instead of voters in the states?

It was the thing at the time.

Taking cues from 24

It's a psychological trick to emphasise the urgency of the situation

There was an earthquake in the area where the set was.

What a tart.