President Bartlet's internal moral obsession with defeating local rival Elliot Roush versus staff's push for national House strategy

In the President's bedroom, Bartlet obsessively fixates on Elliot Roush's 46% poll surge in a tiny school district board race, commissioning polls and arguing its insidious national threat via local …

In the President's bedroom, Bartlet confesses to C.J. that retaking the House isn't his focus—his moral outrage fixates on opponent Elliot Roush polling at 53% in a New Hampshire school …