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By mcjoan
11/01/2005 01:50:29 PM EST

Would I vote for Vinick or Santos? On which issues do I agree more with Santos, more with Vinick? Who would be more likely to stop to help if I had a flat tire? Who would I rather have to dinner? Who would I rather leave my child with? Would I vote for Alan Alda for any federal office? Would I vote for Jimmy Smits for any federal office?

I'd vote for Jimmy Smits in a heartbeat. I've had a major crush on him forever, and it went through the roof and never came down when he kissed me on the cheek during a Dukakis event in 1988. Jimmy Smits for whatever he wants to run for.

Zogby will poll me again after next Sunday's live Vinick-Santos debate. I'll report back if you're interested.


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Zogby Just Polled me on the West Wing | 13 comments (13 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
no way (4.50 / 2)
Vinick wins, we (in this household) stop watching.  End of story.

One republican president at a time is more than enough, thank you.  I don't find the prospect of another at all entertaining.

Besides, they'd need a whole new cast. We haven't seen anybody on the Vinick side being developed as a character.  

"The end of all intelligent analysis is to clear the way for synthesis." H.G. Wells "It's not dark yet, but it's getting there." Bob Dylan

by Captain Future on 11/01/2005 03:47:25 PM EST

Amen... (none / 0)
I don't find the prospect of another at all entertaining.

Jaded Reality

by spiderleaf on 11/01/2005 04:40:33 PM EST

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Leave your child with ... (none / 1)
or have your child with?

You trend-setting youngsters. If I ever get polled, it'll probably be about Matlock or Murder, She Wrote. What? What's that you say? Speak up! Cancelled decades ago???

Pointless, incessant barking since 10/31/2005 03:16:11 PM MST

by Blue the Wild Dog on 11/01/2005 02:28:45 PM EST

Be still my beating heart (none / 1)
Having a child with Jimmy Smits? Blue, what a cruel thing to do, putting that thought in my head.

And you're only a few years older than me, so stop that.

I do kind of miss Murder She Wrote.

Heh.

by mcjoan on 11/01/2005 02:34:13 PM EST

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Angela Lansbury (none / 0)
was a hottie, at least to us in the Wilford Brimley oatmeal-eating demographic. (Actually, she really was a hottie in The Picture of Dorian Gray, back in '45.)

Anyway, you should be working on your sig.

Pointless, incessant barking since 10/31/2005 03:16:11 PM MST

by Blue the Wild Dog on 11/01/2005 02:38:50 PM EST

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I love your sig. (none / 1)
Have any suggestions for mine?

And how do you know the exact date and time?

by mcjoan on 11/01/2005 02:42:40 PM EST

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Sig (none / 0)
I just looked at the timestamp for my first comment here.

Hmmm ... suggestions? Let me stew on that ...

Pointless, incessant barking since 10/31/2005 03:16:11 PM MST

by Blue the Wild Dog on 11/01/2005 02:49:38 PM EST

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Although I, of course, support ... (none / 1)
...more of Santos's positions on issues than Vinick's, I think I'd like to see Vinick win so that the "leftwing" Hollywood writers can expose this Republican the way the megamedia should have been exposing Dubyanocchio all these years. Maybe we'll get to see secret meetings with energy lobbyists and Iranian exiles eager to get U.S. help to nuke Tehran if Vinick wins.

by Meteor Blades on 11/01/2005 02:37:34 PM EST

I can't be unbiased (none / 0)
having been kissed by Jimmy Smits. Even after 17 years!

It would be really interesting to see how they'd take on a Republican administration. And whether they'd use it to hit Bush even harder. The Toby "leak" storyline could not have been less instructive for how a White House leaker should have been handled, and I know that wasn't an accident.

by mcjoan on 11/01/2005 02:41:48 PM EST

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They'd Use Vinick To Pound the Wingnuts (none / 0)
If they decide to go with Vinick as the winner next spring (assuming also that the show is renewed), the show "runners" would be in a far better position to take on the right-wing.  Remember, of course, that when "West Wing" got underway, it was seen as the alternate-universe version of what the Clinton Administration should have been like.  With President Vinick, they'd be able to make the Bushies and the congressional GOP look just that much worse by highlighting the seamy undersides and the hypocrisy.

Honestly -- not that I have anything at all against Jimmy Smits, and would vote for Santos any day of the week -- it's hard to see where the show would go with another Democratic administration.  The storylines would be much more forced and wouldn't be able to play against the real-world political climate in the way that they could should Vinick win the whole enchilada.

by The Maven on 11/01/2005 03:13:02 PM EST

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I think story lines would be better (none / 0)
I have no idea on how they'll go with this. Josh and CJ have been their most popular characters, and either way we lose CJ. So they get rid of Josh, too? It's going to be interesting. But I do agree that they could do a whole heck of a lot more with a Republican administration.

by mcjoan on 11/01/2005 03:48:30 PM EST

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Frankly, I'd Rather They Bring Back Sports Night (none / 0)
It was, I thought, a much better-written show.

And I care ZERO about sports talk shows.  I only watched it because my sister (cares less than zero, but is a fiend for good dialog) recommended it.

But Felicity Huffman is on a real tear on Desperate Housewives, no way they'd get her back.

"Be realistic. Demand the impossible!" --Wall poster from the 1968 Paris Uprising

by Paul Rosenberg on 11/01/2005 04:51:25 PM EST

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Yeah (none / 0)
I loved that show. It was so smart, so funny. Ah well.

by mcjoan on 11/01/2005 07:54:04 PM EST

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