[silent_jonny]

The Jimmy Smits character is named Donavan??

Doesn't he look Irish? ;)

McRaney is his dad and Veronica Cartwright was cast as his mom--two whiter actors in Hollywood they couldn't find. So maybe there's an adoption subplot buried in there.

Speaking of Cartwright. She was cast back in October but there's been no mention of her since then. And she hasn't appeared in any promos. McRaney was cast just last month, and his character description is almost the same as hers ("ruthless parent who will stop at nothing to get Smits into the White House") so I think he might have replaced Cartwright.

This photo is the only evidence I could find that she was ever on the show.

Is it just me, or did they make her look exactly like Hillary?

Maybe after the election they thought they needed to make a cast change and scrap whatever Hillary-esque story they'd planned.

Also--Cartwright is only 6 years older than Smits. That's one messed up family :)

[twin2]

They seemed to indicate in the conversation between dad the general and ethnic uncle in the library, that the mother was hispanic. That's how they are going to explain it I believe.

Also glad to contribute Puffy Jimmy to the vernacular:)

[Yaelle]

“Mom and Dad were in third grade when they realized they wanted their kid to be President. Only problem was, how to get a kid. Anyway, they were friends with Chief Justice John Roberts, so they went to him and asked how a couple still in early elementary school could somehow adopt. He took them to this place in South America where you could adopt Irish kids. Apparently that was Harder to achieve now, so they had to settle for a Brazilian baby. I was in Day care most of my life while they finished middle school.”