History Literature / ThePeoplesChoice

* IntrepidReporter: A few of them appear in supporting roles, including the one who first finds out that Foyle died of his injuries (who is then promoted to a big story covering the drug trade which ends up getting him killed).
* KindlyVet: Doc Comfort is a competent veterinarian with a kindly demeanor, but has enough of an ego that, when he's going to be on tv, he doesn't wear his glasses,s causing him to make a mistake when injecting [=MacArthur=] Foyle's horse with something to make it calm, causing it to go wild and fatally buck off Foyle.

** A local Republican Party chairman who [=MacArthur=] Foyle tasks with finding him a horse to ride in a parade instead supplies one of his own horses (planning to capitalize on the publicity to sell it expensive) and his own vet, who ends up making a fatal mistake.

** A local Republican Party chairman who [[=MacArthur=] Foyle tasks with finding him a horse to ride in a parade instead supplies one of his own horses (planning to capitalize on the publicity to sell it expensive) and his own vet, who ends up making a fatal mistake.

* AlmightyJanitor: After generations of just confirming the president elect, the electors are suddenly thrust into this, having the power to keep Teddy Block out of the White House or usher him in, given how the young aren't legally required to give Block their seal of approval.

A 1995 political satire by Jeff Greenfield. When President elect [=MacArthur=] Foyle dies in a freak accident days after being elected, the nation recoils in horror at the thought of his running mate, Teddy Block, becoming the president. Suddenly, the national spotlight is thrust upon the electors who will confirm in the president, as the Republicans debate about whether or not they should swear in Teddy Block as the new president.

A 1995 political satire by Jeff Greenfield. When President elect [=MacArthur=] Foyle dies in a freak accident days after being elected, the nation recoils in horror at the thought of his running mate, Teddy Block, becoming the president. Suddenly, the national spotlight is thrust upon the electors who will confirm in the president, as the Republican debate about whether or not they should swear in Teddy Block as the new president.

* AlmightyJanitor: The electors are suddenly thrust into this, having the power to keep Teddy Block out of the White House or usher him in.

* HiddenDepths: [[spoiler: After finally being confirmed, Block is upset by all of the political chicanery it took and he and Phelps both decide to resign once they have a more capable replacement waiting in the presidential succession chain, a plan which, to the astonishment of everyone, Block came up with this plan himself]].

* IntrepidReporter: A few of them appear in supporting roles, including the one who first finds out that Foyle died of his injuries.
* KindlyVet: Doc Comfort is a competent veterinarian with a kindly demeanor, but heas enough of an ego that, when he's login to be on tv, he doesn't wear his glasses,s causing him to make a mistake when injecting [=MacArthur=] Foyle's horse with something to make it calm, causing it to go wild and fatally buck off Foyle.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: The Democratic campaign manager, lamenting over his failure, seizes upon the opportunity to get his candidate elected again through the electors with a little prompting from Jack Petticone.

* UnfitForGreatness: Nearly everyone in the story feels that Teddy Block doesn't deserve to be president.

* VicePresidentWho: Teddy Block was chosen for the ticket for his pretty face and described as "a step or two slow out of the cognitive gate." When foil dies, he seems poised to become President and picks one of his even dopier buddies to be his Vice-President.

A 1995 political satire by Jeff Greenfield. When President elect MacArthur Foyle dies in a freak accident days after being elected, the nation recoils in horror at the thought of his running mate, Teddy Block, becoming the president. Suddenly, the national spotlight is thrust upon the electors who will confirm in the president, as the Republican debate about whether or not they should swear in Teddy Block as the new president.

* KindlyVet: Doc Comfort is a competent veterinarian with a kindly demeanor, but heas enough of an ego that, when he's login to be on tv, he doesn't wear his glasses,s causing him to make a mistake when injecting MacArthur Foyle's horse with something to make it calm, causing it to go wild and fatally buck off Foyle.
* MalcomXerox: Zigzagged with Reverend W. Dixon Mason, who holds a lot of control over the black congressmen and electors, considers himself a kingmaker, and uses his influence to both increase the number of black men with authority in the government, and line his own pockets.

** A local Republican Party chairman who MacArthur Foyle tasks with finding him a horse to ride in a parade instead supplies one of his own horses (planning to capitalize on the publicity to sell it expensive) and his own vet, who ends up making a fatal mistake.

* MyGreatestSecondChance: The Democratic presidents campaign manager seizes upon the opportunity to get his candidate elected again through the electors.