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A character is way down in the line of succession for some political office, to the point where it's reasonable to assume that they're never going to actually take it. Then everyone ahead of them dies or is otherwise disqualified.
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** She was actually asked to resign her position by the President a few days earlier, after going against his wishes when dealing with a teacher's strike. Her resignation would be have been made official when she got back to Caprica from the ''Galactica''.
* Part of the aliens' plan in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Aliens in London" was to kill off enough of the British government to make the MP who they'd replaced with an alien into Prime Minister.
** Why didn't they just impersonate the Prime Minister? He was [[
* ''[[Jericho]]''. Nuclear attacks leave the Secretary of Health and Human Services as the highest surviving official. [[Divided States of America|Some people do not agree...]]
* A sketch in one of [[Spike Milligan]]'s shows had a Britain devastated after a nuclear war where the national anthem was "God Bless Mrs Ethel Stokes".
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