President Bush had the highest approval ratings ever after Desert Storm. Then Clinton took a role leading the party and won the presidency.

They've let them define us and that's our mistake.

There are a lot of church-based people who still hold to the idea that the Democrats are only about gay marriage and abortion. But I think people are starting to realize there are other issues out there besides those two. There are issues such as school funding, the price of gas, medical care, health insurance and other areas that involve taking care of people.

Nationally there's no clear cut leader for the Democrats. There's no one ready to take advantage of all the administrations foul-ups.

Nun, sieh mal, wer kann es ihnen verŸbeln?

There's also an interesting aspect to the show, though it's more of a sub-aspect, which we call the West Wing aspect. In one episode there's a senator who doesn't know about Threshold, who discovers $50 million has been diverted to something called Threshold, and he wants to know what the hell is going on. And the lid is almost blown off the whole operation. So the team is not only trying to figure out what's going on, they're trying to keep people from finding out.