The truth is that politics sucks in most of the world, that the US administration influences the world much more than any other... and that I'm a big West Wing fan too! It's by far my favourite show, while I was walking outside the White House last week in DC I kept exchanging in my mind between the real and the fictional presidents.
West Wing is inspiring because it describes politics as we would like it to be while we have a lot of reasons to hate what we see every day (and in Italy we are really touching the bottom).
The good news is they in Italy they have just began airing the 3rd season. I could easily grab the other seasons, but especially now that the show has been cancelled I want to taste every second of it, the longer it takes, the better. Meanwhile let's hope that the power of the long tail will find the way to get them to make new episodes.