"We have to be careful in distinguishing between reality and fantasy, " said Sheen, the fictional Bartlet.
"I'd vote for Josiah Bartlet, " wrote Nancy Harris, of Red Wing, Minnesota, responding to a CNN message board.
She isn't at all surprised that many voters say they'd choose Josiah Bartlet over Al Gore or George W. Bush.
Martin Sheen's President Bartlet is far removed from George W Bush.
The Bartlet fan club extends beyond Los Angeles and across America.
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Yet the many admirers of President Bartlet say the character has given Americans a fresh image of how a good and a great president might act, and behave, and lead.
Sheen - who plays fictional US president Jed Bartlet in the television series The West Wing - wants people to deluge Washington with emails, faxes and phone calls on 26 February.
"President Bartlet is, I think, every American's idea of what they think the president should be, " said Mike McCurry, a CNN political analyst and former press secretary for President Clinton.
Bartlet served on TV from 1999 to 2006 on The West Wing and during his tenure he had to deal with overseas turmoil, MS, the death of several close cabinet members and the abduction of his daughter.
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Bartlet is liberal, idealistic, intellectual and charismatic.
"I have a couple of friends, and we wish that when we go to vote, we could just write in 'Josiah Bartlet' for president, " said a "West Wing" fan from South Carolina as she stood outside the White House in Washington.
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