Walter Shapiro

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@KevinFPBennett @kkondik Or LaGuardia. — PolitiTweet.org

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@trippwhitbeck @billscher It's hazy, but I thought that Rudy was running against someone with a bit of a following on the Democratic side in the 2000 Senate race. If only I could remember her name. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty Karen's gone but the tumult endures and intensifies. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BillsMafia1985 I think it is more than upstate animus towards NYC. I think being mayor is such a divisive job that it rules out any other office despite the fantasies of would-be presidents. Being from NYC hasn't hurt Schumer politically or the Cuomo family. — PolitiTweet.org

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Since the 19th century, no mayor of New York has been elected to another office. Not president, governor or senator. It is a springboard without any springs. — PolitiTweet.org

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@reedgalen People are saying that Wyoming also looks very encouraging for the president despite the distorted news media not calling it a swing state. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EricLiptonNYT Four reasons on the Upper West Side: 1). Reception is better; 2). Can hear it ring throughout apartment, when I have left my cell phone on a desk or table; 3). Much better for radio interviews; and 4). No battery to forget to charge and miss a call. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Robyn_Greene It certainly does seem convenient that the bird arrived in shooting distance (and in the frame of the video) at just the right moment to the millisecond. — PolitiTweet.org

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@polguru @SykesCharlie That line wins the morning. — PolitiTweet.org

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This was my original column on Election Night, which I wrote in June: https://t.co/6AOcuayhF2 — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChrisBuryNews What I didn't have room in the original tweet to mention is that Clinton was already about three hours late when we landed in Albuquerque. But the mechanic handshake lingers in memory since it was so emblematic of Clinton. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dcg1114 One of the biggest lies in politics: "The candidates is just five minutes away." — PolitiTweet.org

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If the "candidate is late" is the standard than Bill Clinton's two terms in office should be erased from history. At 3:00 am on Election Day 1992 Clinton kept Albuquerque voters waiting another 5 minutes as he veered across the tarmac to shake hands with an airline mechanic. — PolitiTweet.org

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@breningstall OAN is about as much a real network as the Duchy of Grand Fenwick is a nuclear power. — PolitiTweet.org

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@xDavidWooderson @MandHF @SendStephen Sorry. I was referring to 2012 and I mistakenly thought it was obvious. — PolitiTweet.org

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@iBreezy6 Thank you for listening. The networks care about their credibility and 2016 probably has made them even more cautious than usual. — PolitiTweet.org

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@xDavidWooderson @MandHF @SendStephen Nope. I reasearched it. The only people still voting when Rove challenged the Ohio call for Obama were Alaska natives. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SendStephen But judging from how they have handled election nights in the past, Fox News will play it by the book. Remember Megyn Kelly vs Karl Rove in 2012. — PolitiTweet.org

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@speechboy71 It even popped up in a Wall Street Journal editorial today. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JennyBackus1 Thanks. It’s getting lonely out here. — PolitiTweet.org

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There seems to be a massive confusion between "could happen" and "will happen." There also seems to be a mistaken expectation that the networks will call states for Trump on Election Night with 40-50% of the absentee votes uncounted. It's almost Apocalypse Porn. — PolitiTweet.org

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This may be the evergreen sentence that has been written the most often in the Trump years: "While other congressional Republicans said nothing, many Democratic lawmakers were quick to condemn the president and call on their GOP colleagues to do the same." https://t.co/r5UACdK3Ch — PolitiTweet.org

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@rmeszoly Game, set and match. — PolitiTweet.org

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This may be my favorite scandal of 2020. I can't decide whether it is "Laundry-gate" or "that business with the dirty laundry" or the "Dirty Laundry Affair." — PolitiTweet.org

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The Russians are devilishly clever. They intend to send Natasha rather than Boris. My lingering fear, though, is that they will send Keri Russell. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @1PatriciaMurphy: OK, Twitter, I’m thrilled to be starting on the amazing politics team at the @ajc this week. It’s my hometown paper in… — PolitiTweet.org

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@pattmlatimes Who do I call in the Biden regime to make sure that I get VIP seats for the 2021 May Day parade? Also, if America becomes Communist will the police confiscate the Trotsky biographies in my library? — PolitiTweet.org

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@GenCounselWolf My point was not about settling issues, but the over-hyping of Supreme Court nominations as a political game-changer. Sorry if Twitter character limits left me being murky. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SendStephen There is so much money floating around in Campaign 2020, especially on the Democratic side, that a burst of contributions won't make much difference. It isn't like, say, Jaime Harrison in SC is under-funded. — PolitiTweet.org

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However, you could write a book the size of "War and Peace" with hot journalistic takes that court fights are...wait for it...game changers. Seriously, in a hyper-partisan election, I find it hard to believe that a hyper-partisan court fight will change anything. — PolitiTweet.org