Yeah, I've been thinking something like that for a while. Either he'll die or become too ill to work. I mean, there are lots of ways to end an administration besides coming to the next scheduled inauguration. If they're determined to end it early, they could just compress things so we go through two years of story time in one season. But no, they're going to be tacky about it.

Cheapskates. They should have given Bartlet his full term.