I'll start
November 6, 2006: After experiencing a chest pain, former White House Chief of Staff and Democratic Party vice presidential nominee Leo McGarry of Illinois, decided to contact a doctor and medicine, soon given to him, saved a politician with a long history of health problems from suffering another, possibly fatal, attack.
November 7, 2006: America votes. At the night Republican nominee, Senator Arnold Vinick of California, emerges as a popular vote winner, leading his Democratic rival, Representative Matt Santos of Texas, with one million of the popular vote. However, the vote across the country produced a tie in the electoral college.
Senator Arnold Vinick of California/Governor Ray Sullivan of West Virginia (Republican): 269 electoral votes, ~50,000,000 popular votesRepresentative Matt Santos of Texas/Former White House Chief of Staff Leo McGarry of Illinois (Democratic): 269 electoral votes, ~49,000,000 popular votesAlso, on the same day, Republicans managed to narrowly retain control over the House of Representatives, while Democrats gained two-votes majority in the Senate, for the first time in years.
November-December 2006: With both camps refusing to concede and mounting legal challenge in narrow states of Nevada (that went to Santos) and Delaware (that went to Vinick), which only led toward original results confirmation, election is heading to Congress after electoral vote deadlock.
January 3, 2007: The new Congress convenes and is faced immediately with task of electing new President and Vice President.
January 6, 2007: In a vote strictly across party lines, Leo McGarry is elected Vice President of the United States in the Senate.
January 13, 2007: Following a series of deadlocked votes, Senator Vinick is elected President of the United States in the House.
January 18, 2007: Just two days before his scheluded inauguration, President-elect Vinick suffers a suprising yet massive heart attack following recent dramatic months.
January 19, 2007: Arnold Vinicc, President-elect of the United States, passed away at the George Washington Hospital in D.C. According to the 20th Amendment, Vice President-elect Leo McGarry becomes President-elect of the United States.
January 20, 2007: At the somber and modest, due to the tragic circumstances, inauguration ceremony, Leo Thomas McGarry is sworn-in as the next, and certainly the most unlikeliest, President of the United States, succeeding his longtime friend, outgoing President Josiah Bartlet.
