Early Continuity Problems

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1. The President & His Family
   • Did Mrs. Bartlet have a "boyfriend" two years after the Bartlets were married? [#17]
   • Does this Nobel Prize winning economist think economists make astrologers look good? [#101]
   • How come the President's doctors don't pick up on his MS in the very thorough annual exams all Presidents are given? [#12]
   • Does the President like Mexican food or just guacamole? [#17] & [#16]
   • How does the Secret Service keep track of the President's code name when it goes back and forth between two different ones? [#23-24]
   • Why Does Bartlet Spell His Name With One T, if His Ancestor Spelled His With Two? [#19]
2. White House Staffers
   • If Toby is divorced, why does he wear a wedding ring? [#120]
   • Why don't Charlie and his sister get the usual death benfits, life insurance, or college money from the death of their policewoman mother killed "in the line of duty"? [#3]
   • Is smoking allowed in the White House?" [#6] & [#11]
   • If C.J. used to work in movie and television public relations, why doesn't she know what a three picture deal is and what it means to develop a movie project? [#16] [#23-24]
   • Who actually pushed C.J. to the ground during the shooting? [#22] & [23-24]
3. The Cabinet & Other Branches of Government
   • Is the Bartlet Administration's Attorney General Black or White?
   • Why does a Congressional roll call leave out powerful members of that world's Congress?
   • What Does their Secretary of Agriculture Look Like?
   • Why is There a Tennessee Flag Outside the Chambers of Texas Senator Hoynes?
   • Why Does That Government Do So Much Work at Night?
   • Why Doesn't the House of Representatives use Electronic Ballots Like They Do in This World?
4. Politics and Polls
   • Polling results taken in May (at the time of the Georgetown Law School graduation) Are Exactly the Same as those taken early August (51% in May and 51% just before the shooting). Is That Likely?
   • If the Vice President Delivered the South in the Presidential Election, Why Did They Lose His Home State of Texas?
5. Inexplicable Oddities
   • How are The Ten Commandments numbered?
   • Have Physicists Come Out With a Theory of Everything?
6. Miscellaneous
   • If a Fundraiser in Hollywood is going to be by Larry Posner Why Is Ted Marcus The One Who Ends Up Hosting It?
   • What Does Laurie's Apartment Look Like?
   • Why does Leo call Vicodin a Schedule II drug when it is a Schedule III?
7. Consistency within episodes
8. Changes to Actors and Backgrounds