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Life Imitating Art, Or The Other Way Around

by @ 7:43 am on March 3, 2008. Filed under 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics, Television

As I noted last month, there are more than a few similarities between this year’s Presidential election and the final season of The West Wing, particularly in the character of Matt Santos and the candidate Barack Obama.

Apparently, that’s not a mistake only, surprisingly, it’s reality that inspired fiction and not the other way around:

H/T: James Joyner

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