Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@Bencjacobs @danconnolly2016 It is a very very slow countdown to liftoff. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@annecronin @BGrueskin Just what I need -- another addiction. It's like offering heroin to someone trying to break their cocaine habit. But I will try it and thank you. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@BGrueskin What about Spelling Bee? Even Eugene Debs would have done Spelling Bee. Seriously, I see the Times' union's point and I will refrain from both of them. — PolitiTweet.org

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Reminiscent of this clip from "Animal House": https://t.co/ZiiqlntiIH — PolitiTweet.org

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The Halperin hiring was buried so deep in the story that you’d have to dig to China to get it. And I laughed when I read the justification that he’s “incredibly brilliant.” Yeah, if you like the conventional wisdom from an accused sexual harasser. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MilliganSusan A major reason why Obama in November 2008 carried IN (first time since 1964) and NC (first time since 1976) was because they were both late primaries -- and Obama and Hillary lavished attention on both states. — PolitiTweet.org

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@RelentlessYapp Probably, but maybe not. February is reserved for the five early states. If they move up MI, it would mean another gap until Super Tuesday. So probably the earliest Michigan would go is 2/20. — PolitiTweet.org

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Very smart column. And, if GA with a GOP governor doesn't abide by the DNC schedule, NH and NV will go on 2/6 and then there won't be another primary until 2/27 (MI). That would mean that the NH/NV results would hang out there for three weeks. Not a bad way to be influential. — PolitiTweet.org

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@daschloz @Bencjacobs Based on occasional upgrade coupons, the chatter in first-class can justify the added expense account costs. — PolitiTweet.org

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@daschloz @Bencjacobs Four reporters required. You need a separate shoe-leather correspondent to handle first class on the Acela. And I am just the person for the job. Come to think of it, doesn’t Amtrak have a writer-in-residence program? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JMilesColeman @ZacMcCrary @jmart Instead of “I am not a witch,” his tagline after losing the primary should have been, “I am not a senator.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@k8croy If they were going to jump, they would have done it in 2021 when one defection would put the Republicans in power. Now with a 51-49 Senate and a Democratic VP, the Republicans need two defections. And what can the GOP offer that Manchin and Sinema can't get from the Democrats? — PolitiTweet.org

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After four close races in two years, do you think there has ever been anyone as happy as Warnock that his next election is in six years? — PolitiTweet.org

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@JeffSmithMO Why only six months on Hunter Biden? That was barely time enough for two Benghazi investigative hearings. — PolitiTweet.org

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@k8croy Why would they leave the majority? — PolitiTweet.org

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@MilliganSusan Take it. I have written this before for @newrepublic. My quick count had GOP governors in VT, MA, MD, VA, GA, AZ, OH, MT, WV. That was 15 Senate seats that could have flipped. — PolitiTweet.org

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In historic terms, the Democrats have been very lucky that no one died in the last two years to cost them a Senate seat. A Warnock win gives the Democrats a margin of mortality for 2023-2024. — PolitiTweet.org

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Difference is that novels have. “Our Country Friends” by Gary Shteyngart” and “Lucy by the Sea” by Elizabeth Strout are two major examples. — PolitiTweet.org

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@chelsea_janes Trust me, I rarely act as a sports assignment editor. Thanks. — PolitiTweet.org

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@chelsea_janes Could you explain the possible implications? — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course with a 4-vote majority McCarthy may discover he needs proxy voting if his anti-vaxx caucus is felled by Covid. — PolitiTweet.org

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.@JillDLawrence on the biggest blowhard on the priggish right-wing bookshelf: "[Bill] Bennett himself is a bewildering embodiment of the conservative journey from preachy self-righteousness to mind-boggling hypocrisy and opportunism." https://t.co/SJdJztodvH — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChloDubs “Kimberly Akimbo” is quite good and infinitely more upbeat. Also Victoria Clarke is an amazing actress. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChloDubs See the Tom Stoppard play “Leopoldstadt.” I saw it two months ago and I am still haunted by its emotional power. — PolitiTweet.org

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May anyone who ever suggested that Avenatti would be a plausible presidential candidate because he was so aggressive on TV please be barred from ever writing about politics again. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JRubinBlogger @RonBrownstein @PRRIpoll Not since 1937. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs I had to get up to watch Hart campaign at a factory gate in freezing Davenport at 5am. The AI bot managed to sleep in and stay warm while still getting the essence of the story. I feel like a master of illuminated manuscripts who just got invited to a book party for Gutenberg. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs I'm toast as a political reporter. I welcome my AI overlords. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

In early March 2020, as Covid was secretly raging in NYC, I spent 90 minutes in a crowded DVD office in Manhattan because I believed the warnings about the need to get real ID. It was about the most dangerous Covid-exposure situation I was ever in -- and it was all for naught. — PolitiTweet.org

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There was an Italian morning show, which I saw maybe 30 years ago without understanding the language, that was built around a couple in bed reading aloud the newspapers to each other and making derisive comments about the news stories. Maybe that could be a model for ABC. — PolitiTweet.org