Will Bailey is the annoying kid in your middle school class. Great for the first seasons he came on, but this scene ruined him for me. And I get it, he was trying to do his job, and he wants his guy to win, but his response to "let's flip a coin" just shows how brattish he is.
In the show, the convention was held in San Diego, which would make it the Valley View Casino Center, known as the iPayOne Center in 2006. However, the scenes were filmed in the HP Pavilion in San Jose.
There's a reason for that. The housing bubble popped in 2008, right before the West Wing-verse's midterms. The President before Bartlet likely repealed Glass-Steagall, so with it popping at almost exactly the halfway point in his presidency, it's unlikley Santos wins a second term.
@@untexan just ask gerald ford, hw bush, ... wait.. they were the only 2 in the last damn near 100 years who got close Then FDR, thats obviously differeent scenario. But then even Harding Coolidge Hoover only had the 1920s lol
@@CT_Taylor FDR only held the Presidency about 12 years and about 4 months, he died around April right after winning a 4th time. But the combo of FDR and Truman held the Presidency of 20 years.
The last two seasons of the show were brilliant. The only plot point I did not like was making Leo the VP candidate for Santos. Did not seem at all realistic.
Will irritated the hell out of me during this scene, whining like a petulant child instead of the head of a Presidential Campaign. You want a seat at the grown up table and be taken seriously? Act like it
Political party conventions are not about the candidates running for nomination but about the rewarding of long time operatives and state fundraisers. It’s things like the platform committee that really shape the party for the next four years not the candidates
It was never mentioned on the show what stadium the production used to act the Democratic Convention. Does anyone know? I assume a basketball or baseballstadium?
Craig Heller This is discussing the primary election, not the general, In the primary you have delegates from local constituencies of the parties and in the general you have electors from the majority winner of each state.
Except Santos didn’t. In earlier episodes it’s clearly stated that he graduated Annapolis, and was on active and reserve duty with the Marines. He was never in the Air Force, this is just one of many continuity errors on any long-running show.
This is a very late answer, but budget was a huge issue. West Wing was a very expensive show so they couldn't afford crowds big enough to fill the hockey stadium there. They resorted to a lot of tricks like closeup and shakey cam to make it seem like the place was filled.
It says he is a graduate of the Air Force Academy, but in an earlier episode he refers to "getting out of the marines". Is this a continuity error or can you go to one academy and commission into another service?
I hate the camera shit they did. Zoom out, zoom in, pan left, pan right, Turn right with zoom, then slight quiver of the frame. I fucking hate that shit.
But isn't it worrying that this law doesn't cover all 50 states? I mean what kind of democracy is it when 48% of electors don't risk punishment if they don't chose the candidate the public voted for? If they felt like it the electorate could elect a President who has not won the vote.
A simpler solution would be to have a candidate's campaign, rather than the state party leaders, choose the electors. Less chance of them being faithless.
Actually, most states have some kind of mechanism for dealing with faithless electors. And once you're a faithless elector, you're done in politics. That is usually enough to keep people in line. That said, I do think it's time to get rid of the Electoral College. And please don't bother offering another point of view. I won't read it or respond to it.
I never understood why the first ladies had so much input into the presidency in the West Wing. They were not voted into office. Never did like the way most women were portrayed, except for CJ.
Kathyglass2922: Eleanor Roosevelt. Betty Ford. Rosalynn Carter. Nancy Reagan. Barbara Bush. Hillary Clinton. Michelle Obama. All of these First Ladies had tremendous influence with their husbands, and many were involved in actual policy decisions. I don't know if you're married. If so, how much influence do you have in your husband's decision-making?
Such naïveté about how government actually works might be mildly amusing if you were fresh out of middle school civics class, but by now, you ought to know that most government policy is made by the (unelected) bureaucrats of the administrative state.
