The Great West Wing Rewatch: 7.1 "The Ticket"
Joel: As we go into our final season of The West Wing, it opens up the show three years in the future. It’s all a big play for the end of the cold open where the current President arrives but his identity is not revealed. The lineup of people who speak to Bartlet in the opening scene is interesting, but I don’t want to talk too much about it as it will reveal major plot points throughout the upcoming season. We’ll probably return to this scene once or twice as the season goes on to discuss it. A large portion of this episode is devoted to questioning whether or not Leo is a good pick for vice president. It was an interesting choice to be sure, and I want you to try and imagine what a pick like this would have looked like in the real world. Despite spending a large portion of his life in politics, I’m not sure if anyone had ever voted for Leo for anything before this. He was chief of staff, and we know at one point he was Secretary of Labor, but both of those are appointe...