tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post111761693325134441..comments2024-03-23T19:30:55.540-04:00Comments on INNER TOOB: DEEPLY FELTToby O'Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06999037844031101965noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060041.post-1117632627424300652005-06-01T09:30:00.000-04:002005-06-01T09:30:00.000-04:00I, too, thought Felt was something of a letdown. ...I, too, thought Felt was something of a letdown. I was wondering if it had something to do with the fact that I wasn't even alive during Watergate, but perhaps I'm wrong.<BR/><BR/>With regard to <I>The West Wing</I>'s split from the main universe, I always speculated Watergate was actually key to this. This is the theory that I concocted: Nixon resigned in 1974, two years into his second term in office. Instead of just having Vice President Ford serve out the rest of his four-year term, the people call for a "recall" election of sorts, allowing a new presidential election to take place in October 1974, or perhaps a little later given that there only would have been three months to put together a national election. This would explain the two-year offset of WW's elections versus our own. So, instead of having Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, and Bush II, other people such as Newman, Lassiter, and Bartlet are in the right places at the right times to win their parties' nominations and eventually their presidential races. I think the theory fits, given that Nixon is the last "real" president we have seen on WW (not counting the documentary special episode, of course). However, I don't know about the legality of a national recall election. I just figured that the Constitution could have been quickly amended to allow such a possibility, if it's not in there already (and I don't think it is).<BR/><BR/>Now, don't ask me about the timeline of <I>24</I>. It's really screwed up, since apparently six years have passed between Day 1 and Day 4, which would place up sometime in 2006.WordsSayNothinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18402384592014183826noreply@blogger.com