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West Wing Writers Get Election Déjà Vu

Politics imitates fiction imitating politics in closing days of the 2008 race

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 30, 2008 6:14 AM CDT

(Newser) – A minority Democratic candidate battling an older Republican maverick in an election overshadowed by national crisis sounds pretty familiar to the makers of The West Wing—who wrote that script 4 years ago. As the 2008 race enters the home stretch, the parallels between it...   Read full story »

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