"Constituency of One"

The West Wing writers sat down with John Wells amd Warner Brothers and pondered how they could get the flagging series to perk up AND to run another season. They're limited in the White House by the fact that Bartlett can't stay for more than two terms. They sat down and out of that meeting came this. What are they doing? I know the show was never meant to be subtle, but how heavy handed and obvious can they be. There's going to be a shakeup in the West Wing.
Hint: you can tell when they're getting serious by spotting one thing: they always put on my favorite rumble music when things get back to basics just so that we never get lost. You think you hear thunder, watch out, Leo's gonna be pissed.
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