Tim Alberta

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

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Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

oh my -- this billboard just went up outside Livonia, a predominantly white suburb of Detroit: https://t.co/1SAaSiGKZM https://t.co/KGZZwDX6Ac — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

oh my https://t.co/1SAaSiGKZM — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

And yes, I used the all caps and obnoxious font to troll my parents/assignment editors. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

And yes, I used the all caps and obnoxious font - single spaced - to troll my parents. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

In my house, if you got into trouble, you had to write an essay on what you did wrong and/or a letter apologizing to the aggrieved party. If nothing else, I learned to deal with heavy-handed editors at an early age. (In this case...my Dad.) https://t.co/W2RitT9FE4 — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

I'm finding it difficult to focus on anything else today after reading this. God help us. https://t.co/qMWWCX3Tr2 — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @ccadelago: Can’t overstate how much is riding on 2020. Nov represents not only a once-every-20-years occurrence when redistricting fal… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

"They stood in a prayer circle, surrounded by family and friends who enveloped the children in hugs when they began to cry." Two little kids without a father. Just awful. https://t.co/X89X0plM2a — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@jbouie ah, you're talking about his political fortunes as president? yes that's all true. I'm thinking specifically about candidates & campaigns. Big difference in believing Trump defied the laws of gravity as a candidate (he did, particularly in the primary) versus as POTUS (he hasn't) — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@jbouie His political fortunes in the *general* followed those rules b/c things were binary and subject to negative partisanship. His political fortunes in the primary—winning despite slamming POWs, owning a far-left record on key issues, blaming Bush for 9/11, and so much else—did not. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@daveweigel Oh no question. But I think it's about our psychology more than theirs. Kanye aside, will the next mega-celebrity who runs even bother w/ trips to early states? — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Scarred by the experience of dismissing Trump's candidacy when he launched in 2015 -- despite believing, based on years of reporting, that the game *had* changed, and that our institutions were vulnerable to insurgency -- I'm now firmly in that second camp. For better or worse 🤷‍♂️ — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

We're split roughly into 2 camps. One believes Trump is an anomaly; that the old rules of the game still apply and we shouldn't take gimmicks seriously. The other believes Trump is a model, having exploited a game that no longer has rules, and thus takes every gimmick seriously. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@NateSilver538 right... except one of those two has a national name ID in the fractions of a percentile, and the other is one of the world's most famous people whose announcement just got a million "likes" and half-million retweets in less than a day — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

If you can't imagine a scenario in which Trump beats Biden by 75,000 votes in Wisconsin—and Kanye wins 77,000 write-in votes in Wisconsin, mostly from 18 to 30 year old white dudes in the WOW counties—you're underestimating how irrational our politics have become. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

No idea whether Kanye sustains this stunt for 4 months. No idea whether 2020 is another nail-biter election w/ tiny margins in key swing states. But to dismiss the potential impact of one of the world's most famous people telling voters he's a candidate for POTUS seems unwise. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Try this on for size: Trump margin of victory in Wisconsin: 22,748 Total # of write-in votes in Wisconsin: 35,150 — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Another data set: Clinton margin of victory in NH: 2,736 votes Total # of write-in votes in NH: 12,029 — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

If you want to treat Kanye "running" as a joke, consider: Trump margin of victory in Michigan: 10,704 Total # of write-in votes in Michigan: 8,955 Someone with 100% name ID doesn't need ballot access to move an election. The implications of a publicity-stunt candidacy are real. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @zeynep: Enough with the beach-scolding! It's not scientifically-sound and it's counterproductive. It's a virus—not a moral agent geared… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @KaminskiMK: Almost a feel good political story this 4th from @ZachMontellaro: Coronavirus threatened to make a mess of Kentucky’s prim… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

I saw The Big Green a hundred times as a kid but it took a re-viewing today to realize the plot turns on the rival coach attempting to get the protagonist star player deported in order to win a 6th grade soccer championship. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @MattMackowiak: NEW: @MackOnPolitics #podcast: @TimAlberta of @POLITICOMag returns. We discuss the state of the 2020 race, current poll… — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

Deleting all Redskins tweets/replies because there's a real debate to be had here (not about that name, but about Native American imagery in sports) but Twitter sure isn't the place to have it. Happy dunking, my friends. — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

@clintonyates elaborate please — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

https://t.co/6SbgicH0Wy — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

The outrage goalposts are moving. (No pun intended.) The longtime case against "Redskins" - it's a racial slur, an ethnic pejorative Now, according to my mentions, any term associated with Native American culture is offensive You've been warned, Chiefs/Braves/Indians/Seminoles — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

RT @neontaster: @TimAlberta Not so fast, my man. https://t.co/adUfgtrNtM — PolitiTweet.org

Tim Alberta @TimAlberta

The Washington Tribe You play off the "tribal" nature of the nation's capital, where Rs and Ds belong to warring sects, while making clear that on the football field Washington is a unified force. Also you keep the badass logo. — PolitiTweet.org