Walter Shapiro

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@mseyfang Thanks. You can just imagine how many news clips I waded through to discover how inaccurate October predictions are in odd-numbered years. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 22, 2021

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I wrote: "Handicapping off-year congressional elections nearly 400 days in advance has proven about as accurate as an eighteenth-century blunderbuss. Yes, the forerunner of the shotgun could hit its target. But its accuracy was limited, and it carried the risk of misfiring." — PolitiTweet.org

.@MrWalterShapiro reviewed how the press has historically covered national politics at this stage of a presidential… https://t.co/0Etl2kA9hV

Posted Oct. 22, 2021

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Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@dcg1114 That's my point. Too many things are in play to predict how life will look in November 2022. And none of the prior elections that I studied was conducted in a nation under the shadow of a pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 22, 2021