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Matt Santos is Barack Obama’s avatar

By Carol Eisenberg | March 6, 2008 at 10:15am | 2

Jimmy Smits and Barack Obama

Fans of The West Wing have noticed uncanny parallels between the show’s Texas Rep. Matt Santos, and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

Like Obama, Santos is a young, charismatic politician making a long-shot bid for the presidency. Like Obama, he refuses to be defined, or limited, by his ethnicity. And like Obama, he challenges a better-known establishment Democrat who wears the mantle of inevitability.

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