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** [[Back to the Future (film)|Doc Brown]] is a famous constitutional scholar.
** [[Sports Night|Jeremy Goodwin]] gets brought in as the new Deputy Communications Director, with stepsister [[The Wonder Years|Winnie Cooper]] for initial support.
* [[Life Imitates Art]]:
** The last season saw the election of Matthew Santos as POTUS, Santos's character was based on Barack Obama after the show's creators met him while still an Illinois state senator. The real life "Josh" (Rahm Emmanuel) also took over as Chief of Staff.
** Santos' Republican opponent Arnold Vinick was loosely based on John McCain - Southwestern Senator with bipartisan appeal. The mind-blowing thing is that Santos and Vinick run in 2006... ''two years'' before the [[Real Life]] election of 2008, and when there was no guarantee that either Obama or McCain would win their respective nominations (the front-runners in 2008 were Hilary Clinton and Mitt Romney).
** 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".
* [[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.
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