President Bartlett’s
staffers managed pretty successfully to insulate themselves from meeting real voters (as opposed to focus groups and polling samples). But when
Toby and Josh were left behind by the motorcade they found they had no choice. They patronised and ignored the voters they encountered in equal measure, until this man:
"It should be hard. I like that it's hard. Putting your daughter through college, that's - that's a man's job. A man's accomplishment. But it should be a little easier….Just a little easier. Because in that difference is... everything."
On a day like today, with a serious stock market crash, this conversation led to a change of policy – a new tax break.
The Conservative Party has learned from West Wing in the past. Over-burdened voters badly need it to do so again.
