Location
District of Columbia
Night air bites along broad avenues and narrow sidewalks where civic power registers as a tangible boundary. The District of Columbia holds courthouse columns, municipal lights, and the slow, bureaucratic rhythm of law; it reads as both a physical city and a jurisdictional line that characters encounter as constraint. On a cold D.C. sidewalk, legal authority feels immediate — jurisdictional limits are invoked aloud, coats are accepted in silence, and personal autonomy rubs against federal reach in gritty, intimate detail.
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Detailed Involvements
Events with rich location context
S4E7
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Election Night
Donna's Honor Gambit Outside the Polls
The District of Columbia is invoked by Donna as a politically safe place where Bartlet's victory is assumed; she uses it rhetorically to argue her Wisconsin vote has greater marginal value.
Atmosphere
Rhetorical certainty; a safe backdrop used to persuade the skeptical voter.
Functional Role
Argumentative reference point to make Donna's plea seem logically sound.
Symbolic Significance
Represents presumed security and the uneven geography of electoral value.
Referenced as a politically safe area
Used rhetorically in the face of local persuasion
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