The West Wing is one of my all time favourite TV shows. It is a fictional story about President Bartlett and the staff he employs in his administration. He’s probably the coolest president I’ve ever watched in popular culture.  American politics is so much feistier than Australia. You have the right wingers (in  my opinion, absolutely terrifying conservatives who make Tony Abbott look like a socialist) and you have the liberal democrats. I’m a huge fan of Bill and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. So there was no way that I could have gone to the USA without visiting the [...]