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How could Bartlet be elected in 1998 when it wasn t a presidential election year?

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How could Bartlet be elected in 1998 when it wasn t a presidential election year?

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Very simply, Sorkin wanted to start the show in the first year of a presidency so he created a fictional universe in which elections are held in different years. (He s a writer. He can do that.) And this way an election on the show won t have to compete with the real presidential election.