Bartlet Family Home, Manchester, New Hampshire
Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
New Hampshire functions as the symbolic stake at issue—the President's home state whose potential loss embodies personal humiliation. It is the state staff debate about conceding and messaging centers upon, and it is ultimately reassigned on the map to Ritchie.
Charged with embarrassment and sentimental weight; staff speak of it in protective, almost familial terms.
Symbolic battleground; personal and reputational asset for the President.
Embodies the tension between personal identity and political expediency—losing it would wound the President's personal narrative.
New Hampshire is invoked as a battleground and the primary location Joey wants prioritized; it exists here as a strategic target rather than a physical setting in the scene, driving the allocation argument about presidential appearances.
Absent physically but charged politically — perceived as emotionally important and electorally valuable.
Campaign battleground and strategic focal point in the staff's allocation debate.
Represents home-state pride and high-return electoral calculus that competes with party-building imperatives.
N/A to the patio scene; politically sensitive and symbolically 'protected' by campaign leadership.
New Hampshire appears as a referenced strategic location: Joey frames it as the target she wants Sam to back and Sam presents it as an ask for the President's time. The state functions narratively as the bargaining chip around which short-term tactical unity is achieved.
Not physically present; exists in the conversation as contested and emotionally resonant (the President's home-state weight).
Campaign target and strategic consideration serving as a locus for resource-allocation debate.
Represents ties between personal history and political obligation; a place where optics and loyalty complicate pure electoral calculus.
New Hampshire is invoked as the battleground jurisdiction whose local results and ballot measures (including the bond) carry outsized symbolic weight; Bartlet reframes home-state victory versus national duty in this locale's terms.
Politically charged and competitive (described as a 'dog fight'), lending urgency and dramatic stakes to the Bartlets' responses.
Jurisdictional battleground that amplifies the consequences of the night's returns and frames the political stakes.
Represents the tension between parochial electoral loyalties and national leadership responsibilities.
Electoral processes governed by state law, moderators, and polling regulations (implied).
New Hampshire is the broader jurisdictional frame invoked by questions about state returns and the bond issue; it functions as the battleground whose local results carry symbolic weight for the national contest being discussed.
Framed as tense and consequential in micro: the 'dog fight' in polls and the pivotal bond vote create an atmosphere of competitive urgency.
Jurisdictional battleground whose electoral outcomes are being rhetorically leveraged by the President and scrutinized by reporters.
Represents local pride and the danger that national success could be hollow without home-state legitimacy.
New Hampshire is also mentioned as an early primary state where precinct captains are reportedly committed early; its inclusion reinforces the claim of systematic early recruitment across key states.
Implied competitive early-caucus energy; heightened attention on local organizers.
Another named battleground that substantiates concerns about premature consolidation of delegates.
Represents the traditional small-state crucible where national campaigns are made or broken.
New Hampshire, like Iowa, is identified as a directly affected early primary state where top-level precinct captains received suspicious calls; its mention compounds the scope and urgency, indicating multi-state operational penetration rather than localized noise.
Tense and politically sensitive — the implication of tampering across early-vote states raises alarm.
Affected constituency and secondary battleground whose operatives were contacted
Signals that the interference is not isolated but targets the early primary apparatus, threatening campaign momentum
Targets appear limited to high-level precinct operatives, implying selective penetration
The Bartlet family home in Manchester is referenced as the site of the family Christmas and the destination for Jean‑Paul's suggested visit; it anchors the personal stakes that undercut Oval Office decisions.
Snowbound, familial, guarded by Secret Service in planning.
Offsite family refuge and the practical stage for holiday security decisions.
Represents the intersection of presidency and family life; a private stage made public by security procedures.
Highly restricted during the President's presence; Secret Service protocols apply.
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Joey pushes a cold, arithmetic decision—reclassify Ohio as winnable and shift scarce ad money—touching off a clash between hard electoral calculus and the President's personal stakes. Toby objects on practical …
On the Saybrook patio, amid the elegiac singing of 'Gaudeamus,' Joey presses Sam to prioritize scarce campaign resources for New Hampshire as the highest-return play. Sam pushes back, arguing the …
The patio scene opens on a rare, humanizing beat — staffers singing, Sam and Joey hashing out campaign allocation, and a small, conciliatory victory when Sam agrees to back Joey's …
Abbey Bartlet exits the polling booth to applause and uses playful, artful deflection to steer reporters away from her personal ballot toward the broader campaign. Her answers humanize the campaign …
At a Manchester polling church Abbey Bartlet deflects reporters with practiced wit, shifting attention from her personal ballot to the larger stakes of the day. President Bartlet follows, rhetorically reframing …
In a terse, escalating hallway confrontation Senator Triplehorn corners Josh and accuses the White House of quietly manufacturing a Hoynes coronation by locking up precinct captains. Triplehorn demands partisan loyalty …
Josh brings Leo alarming intelligence: dozens of calls to top-tier Iowa and New Hampshire precinct captains are originating from an impossible source (the Flathead River), suggesting organized interference with the …
On a snowbound Christmas Eve Bartlet returns from an intimate moment with Zoey into the Oval where policy triage continues. Will Bailey, newly anointed and uncomfortably earnest, presses the President …