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So here’s a little thing I noticed while watching In the Shadow of Two Gunmen. In the flashback to when Josh first meets Donna, he tells her, “This can’t be a place for people to come to find their confidence and start over.”

The irony is that that’s exactly what the campaign was for all of them.

C.J. had just been fired from her job in Hollywood.

Toby had been on an electoral losing streak for years.

Sam was becoming disillusioned with providing litigation to multibillion dollar companies, and when he started trying to do the right thing, they threatened to fire him.

Leo was rebuilding his life and his career on the other side of rehab, and he was experiencing his own disillusionment with politics, because nobody believed a good man could be elected president anymore. He got Bartlet into the race to change that.

Josh was working a campaign for a guy who wasn’t the real thing, and he knew it, and he wanted to do something more, something worthwhile.

The campaign helped all of them find their confidence and start over.