Two Weeks Out

"Two Weeks Out" is episode 146 of The West Wing. With the election fourteen days away and both candidates polling even in California, both the Santos and Vinick campaigns scramble to the state to try and gain earned media from public events. Shelia, Vinick's assistant in previous episodes, has stepped down in favor of hard line right winger, Jane. She is there to pull voters from the Republican base. But it's Vinick who single-handedly rescues hi... more

"Two Weeks Out" is episode 146 of The West Wing. With the election fourteen days away and both candidates polling even in California, both the Santos and Vinick campaigns scramble to the state to try and gain earned media from public events. Shelia, Vinick's assistant in previous episodes, has stepped down in favor of hard line right winger, Jane. She is there to pull voters from the Republican base. But it's Vinick who single-handedly rescues his campaign by making the decision to have a no-time-limit press conference in front of the San Andreo nuclear power plant. Santos has his own events in California that get completely overshadowed as Vinick confidently answers hours worth of questions about the near-meltdown, his role in getting the plant constructed, nuclear regulation, etc. The reporters eventually run out of anything else to ask him; Toby Ziegler (who is informally advising Josh) says "Damn, this guy is good", and Vinick heads back to the trail with an enormous boost. Vinick... less