Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

I believe that this will be Biden's first recent trip to Iowa. Another significant acknowledgement of the broadening of the map. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Jon Alter has written a terrific biography of the unfairly neglected Jimmy Carter. As a former Carter speechwriter, I reviewed it for the Washington Monthly. I recommend both the review (pretty good) and the Jon Alter biography (excellent and revealing). https://t.co/ZRkBjBHJIC — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm convinced. But wouldn't the money be better spent by passing it on to the Texas Democratic Party or individual candidates than pumping for Biden? — PolitiTweet.org

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Texas is the Great White Whale for the Democrats. (That's a Moby Dick reference and says nothing about political demographics). No state that is a luxury and not a necessity for Biden would drain more energy and money than making a big play for Texas. — PolitiTweet.org

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Today we passed the total turnout for the 1956 Eisenhower-Stevenson election. Guess is that we will surpass Kennedy-Nixon (1960) by Wednesday. — PolitiTweet.org

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Weakest emotion in politics is gratitude. Just ask Winston Churchill who was ousted as PM less than two months after V-E Day in 1945. It's a major reason why I believe that the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett will have minimal effects on voting in Biden vs Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @jonathanalter: Reading about Jimmy Carter offers a clue to what it will be like to have an honest, environmentally-conscious president… — PolitiTweet.org

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@richgalen I should mention that the reporter who interviewed me in 2000 about my geographic bafflement on the campaign trail was @greenfield64. — PolitiTweet.org

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I recall a distinguished TV reporter doing a whole segment on this confusion in 2000 and interviewing me. I was totally baffled about where I had been In the prior week. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thrilled that the Fox TV cast has lingered too long on commercials and semi-missed the first pitch of two innings. Of course, I would rather hear from T-Mobile than see the game. — PolitiTweet.org

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@meg_heckman @GradyForrer Sorry we didn't catch up this year when I was in NH (which I love) for the primary. Hell, in a normal year, I would have concocted an excuse to come back around now since NH was where I ended up on Election Night 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

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@meg_heckman @GradyForrer Congratulations on your new book. I was feeling remiss that I had missed it until i realized that it just came out over the summer. I look forward to reading it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Smartypants60 I was in Minnesota, covering his Senate reelection, and had lunch with him about 10 days before he died. I remember he wanted to go to a particular Vietnamese restaurant because the owners were struggling to keep the business going. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Smartypants60 He seems so vivid in memory. So hard to believe that it has been 18 years since Wellstone's plane went down. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BeschlossDC: Airport rally in “The Manchurian Candidate,” which premiered yesterday 1962: https://t.co/C1bgVaAUwx — PolitiTweet.org

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@thorn_john I went with Britannica that summarizes the speech like this: "Blaine experienced an embarrassment of his own when a supporter at a rally in New York City described the Democrats as the party of 'rum, Romanism, and rebellion.'" https://t.co/vZmHaymgfb — PolitiTweet.org

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We seem to be on schedule for a GOP Trump surrogate to denounce Biden and the Democrats as the party of "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion." It worked so well for the Republicans in 1884. And it can't be worse than what Meadows said today about COVID. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JuliaManhattan And it continues to puzzle me how many people fail to realize this essential point. After Trump (knock wood), we can resume the kind of normal disagreements over money and taxes that exist in healthy democracies. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ExGOPer In 2016, the Union Leader endorsed Libertarian Gary Johnson. — PolitiTweet.org

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In a big-tent campaign, you take allies where you find them. The Union Leader also attacked Trump on his COVID response and described Biden as "a caring, compassionate and professional public servant." Given the paper's history in NH, this is a gutsy endorsement. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop I can think of a few members of the Loeb family who are spinning underground. — PolitiTweet.org

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Someday I will understand why no one in the White House wears masks in horribly close quarters. It is hard to see the political upside for most of Pence’s staff to be infected 10 days before the election. Are they really that afraid of Trump? — PolitiTweet.org

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Let’s be real. How many voters will be persuaded by seeing Mike Pence on the campaign trail? You will lose more votes as a super-spreader. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @joe_sheehan: Go 3-1 with second and third, and you have options. Go 3-1 with bases loaded, and you have one choice. — PolitiTweet.org

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Alternate thoughts — there are only so many times you can go to PA or WI. Nothing wrong with investing in as many routes to 270 as possible. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelMcGough3 Reince Priebus was my favorite spelling victory. If only he were back in the White House. “Lindsey” Graham was another challenge. Being on the East Coast, I could go months without writing about Feinstein. — PolitiTweet.org

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@StuPolitics It really is. I am thrilled that fleeting TV moments like that have been saved. — PolitiTweet.org

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What it suggests to me -- a Manhattan voter -- is that the lines will be significantly shorter on Election Day since so many normal Election Day voters will have voted already. Also, NYC elections are portraits in ineptitude despite the well-intentioned poll workers. — PolitiTweet.org

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And by tomorrow or Monday, more people will have voted in 2020 than watched the second debate. The current number on Saturday morning is 56 million votes have been cast. And the others seem to be waiting on line in my NYC neighborhood. https://t.co/T5FZqUb6wf — PolitiTweet.org

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@JillDLawrence That's what I told myself every time I spelled it -- both names are the opposite of what you'd normally expect. — PolitiTweet.org