The current plot line of the show has a presidential race between a liberal California Republican Senator and a liberal Hispanic House member from Texas. The GOP candidate is pro-choice and greatly dislikes Christian conservatives. The fact that a candidate like that could never win the nomination never occurred to the show's producers.
This Senator, 25 years earlier, pushed regulators to approve the "San Andreo" reactor, and because of the that, he's now evil incarnate and immediately loses his lead in every state with a nuke plant. It was taken as a point of fact by everyone in the show, with the exception of the Senator, that nuclear power is dangerous and nuke plants should never be located near populated areas. The writers did manage to let him state the fact that there's never been a fatality in an American nuclear accident and that one of the reasons that Europe's greenhouse emissions are lower than ours is their heavy reliance on nuclear power. But that brief moment of sanity was quickly drowned out by the liberal hysteria about nuclear power that filled the rest of the episode.
I drive by the real San Onofre power plant 4-6 times per week and have done so for the last 8 years. I've never had a moment of concern about that place. In the last month we've lost 14 coal miners who were mining the fuel which is used in many power plants on the East Coast. It's too bad that the government has allowed the anti-nuke activists to keep us from modernizing our power generation system.
The West Wing will be turned out of office in May.
UPDATE: Faux President Martin Sheen thinks the show represented America's center:
"We were a fantasy but we had a parallel universe to reality," he continued. That changed radically, he said, when the Bush administration came into office and then 9/11 happened and "the country moved much further away from the center and we felt we were dead in the center and we gave everyone a fair shot."
Fantasyland, thy name is The West Wing.
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