Reply #10: The West Wing

[Jen72]

have been treading a very fine line and have survived rumours of being cancelled. This season will go into an election year, they are going to have a tough time. They are losing viewers to endless reality tv crap, the press are very snide now and Rob Lowe is working for Arnie.
Remember the death threats the Martin Sheen recieved and the campaign to have him fired was only a few months ago,
Even if they do have include more republicans to survive then i have no problem with that. So far the religious right have been portrayed as nuts (Mary Marsh) and the moderates are portrayed as having an unhill struggle to stop the GOP types from stealing the agenda.
Aaron Sorkin also created Ainsley Hayes who was a good character as a conserative Republican, without becoming a shrill, airhead.
John Wells has done well with ER which has a strong Democratic lean,
(the republican at the desk is an intolerent bigot!!)
If the Democratic message of The West Wing gets lost, then I think cast members will leave.