Board of Education

President Bartlet storms through his bedroom, slamming polls on the nightstand, as the Board of Education explodes into crisis—a tiny school district's governing body where challenger Elliot Roush claws to 46%, igniting Bartlet's fury over threats corroding local control. He commissions frantic polls, links it viscerally to his daughters' upbringing in that district, and defies C.J.'s pragmatism and Leo's redirection, casting this board as ground zero for national democratic erosion amid midterm shadows and post-assassination highs.