You're listening to The West Wing Weekly. I'm Rishikesh Hereway.

And I'm Joshua Molina.

And today we're talking about season 6 episode 11. It's called Opposition Research.

It was written by Eli Addy. It was directed by Chris Messiana.

And at first aired on January 12th 2005, we're two weeks away from the month that's

shall not be mentioned.

The month of Voldemort.

Right, exactly.

In this episode, Josh and Matt Santos traveled to New Hampshire to set up shop and do some

campaigning for the early days of the Santos candidacy.

But they discover they have some fundamental disagreements about the strategy in New Hampshire

and the story to be told and maybe even the ultimate goal of the campaign.

And coming up later, we're going to be joined by special guest Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who

has been honing his own narrative and introducing himself as a candidate for the presidency.

He's got an exploratory committee and he's got some similarities to Matt Santos.

And he just met some time in New Hampshire doing retail politics of his own.

He's a candidate you could see Josh Lyman getting behind.

I think so. Yes. And in fact, Bradley Whifford tweeted that he thought that he was the

real thing.

There you go.

This episode starts with a white title screen, as opposed to our familiar black title screen

with white text.

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