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** In "Welcome to Wherever You Are", there's a brief scene where we overhear a Vinick ad using the slogan "Yes, America Can", which the Santos campaign complains was actually their slogan. Obama's slogan, of course, ended up being "Yes We Can".

* [[Reality Subtext]]: Ron Silver switched parties from Democrat to Republican between his character's appearances on the show.

* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: [[Juno]] and [[The Help|Skeeter Phelan's]] mom was the White House press secretary (after work as [[10 Things I Hate About You|Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's]] [[One-Scene Wonder|high school guidance counselor]]), and [[Psych|Gus]] used to be the President's personal aide.

** [[CSI: Miami|Calleigh Dusquesne]] was a [[Blonde Republican Sex Kitten]] before joining up with Horatio and co.

** [[House (TV series)|Dr. Lisa Cuddy]] is a call girl! (Though, I'm pretty sure House already made that joke).

*** Her friend Jeanine from law school is [[24|Michelle Dessler]].

** Congressman David Wallace argued against gays in the military before [[The Office|becoming CFO of Dunder-Mifflin]].

** [[Parks and Recreation|Ron Swanson]] as a wildlife campaigner. Who'd have thought...

** [[Battlestar Galactica|Admiral Adama]] as a judge!

*** And [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Admiral Forrest]] arrested him due to racial profiling. ''Awkward...''

** Sometime between retiring as Chief of Police of New York City and raising a four generation cop family, [[Blue Bloods|Henry Reagan]] ran a drug company trying to work out a deal with AIDS-stricken African nations.

** [[NCIS|Leroy Jethro Gibbs]] as secret service protection for the Press Secretary.