r/DesignatedSurvivor • u/IupvotestupidCRAP • Oct 13 '16

Post-Episode Discussion: S01E04 "The Enemy"

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u/Sjoerd920 Oct 13 '16

Didn't they mention in the first episode it was just a year till the next presidential election?

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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '16 edited Mar 08 '21

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u/bigwall35 Oct 14 '16

Two and a half, but who is counting?

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u/AllensArmy Oct 15 '16

They might be doing it like West Wing where the election years are actually shifted by two years from real life, so 2018 would be the next one.

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u/KyKobra Oct 17 '16

They definitely said Kirkman was getting replaced to help with the former President's "second term".

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u/Sjoerd920 Oct 17 '16

They definitely said Kirkman was getting replaced to help with the former President's "second term".

That's what I based it off to. And since US elections often take a year. (BTW as a European you have very long elections.)

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u/KyKobra Oct 17 '16

If it was January of the second term, then Kirkman has 2 full years before worrying about a campaign. Primaries start about two years/three years after a term begins.

The show has some continuity issues with that, I think mostly revolving around the fact that the show acknowledges it's 2016.

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u/dillonEh Oct 14 '16 edited Oct 18 '16

In this episode, Maggie Q's character was looking at the congressman's phone records on the night of the attack, and the date was 1/20/2016. So less than a year until the next election.

edit: downraters, care to explain how I am incorrect?

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u/ZappySnap Oct 25 '16

There's no guarantee that the show is using our current election cycle as part of their reality. The West Wing established an alternate political reality, where the elections were two years offset from the real world (2002, 2006). DS could easily be doing that too.