Speaking of the West Wing, has anybody else noticed how eerily prescient the final season's Presidential election was of the wreal-life 2008 version?The GOP, without much primary struggle, nominates an aging western Senator with a maverick reputation and cross-party appeal (Vinick/McCain) over a fundamentalist preacher (Butler/Huckabee). To shore up questionable social conservative credentials, the nominee selects an attractive young right-wing, fundamantalist, evangelical small-state governor (Sullivan WV/Palin AK) as running mate.
The Democratic primary season is far more fractious. The presumptive nominee has most institutional support but limited enthusiasm (Russell/Clinton). Enter an insurgent young ethnic-minority candidate with limited experience from a large state (Santos TX/Obama IL), a pretty wife and two young children. On the periphery is a once-powerful southern senator with lurking sex problems (Hoynes/Edwards). The race is neck and neck, and eventually the insurgent secures the nomination, then selects a longtime Washington insider to join his ticket (McGarry/Biden).We can only hope that the results of the general election, a close Democratic victory, are equally as congruent.
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