From USA Today: “And though it’s true she has never played a president, she didn’t feel the need to base her character — an independent vice president who takes over when the Republican president has a stroke — on any real-life female presidential hopeful.”

What’s an independent vice president? I’m just trying to imagine the possibilities? She’s working through a separate agenda with Congress from the president? Or she’s been sitting with Bob Woodward dissing the president for the first book on his adminstration?