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** 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".
* [[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.
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