Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@mattizcoop @billscher You had the great line (in a 2000 context), coming on after Seinfeld and saying, "I now know how Al Gore feels." — PolitiTweet.org

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For all Trump's objections to the practice, I would think that self-interest would cause him to encourage everyone who attends an indoor rally to vote absentee. And very early because you never know. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @billscher Adroitly done, @mattizcoop. Finding a news peg to remind the world that I opened and you closed for Jerry Seinfeld. — PolitiTweet.org

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Don't want to get overly technical here, but it is unwise to try to burn down small businesses from the inside. This should not be be confused with an "inside job" for an insurance fire. — PolitiTweet.org

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@hidingintheburg @onthemedia It's Nate Silvers' @fivethirtyeight. I also like the Economist site: https://t.co/uLjRsb2KGS. I am also a fan of @RachelBitecofer at the Niskanen Center. — PolitiTweet.org

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Through the 1990s in Japan, doctors tended not to tell patients that they had cancer because they didn't want them to "lose their fighting spirit." I'm waiting for Trump to seize on that as his latest explanation for his failure to warn about the realities of COVID-19. — PolitiTweet.org

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Happy Valley. He wouldn’t dare go to Ann Arbor. — PolitiTweet.org

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I am not normally a Cuomo defender. But an important part of political leadership is learning from major mistakes. Cuomo's early missteps were far worse than JFK's Bay of Pigs invasion. But, boy, has Cuomo learned from them, even if he won't publicly admit it. — PolitiTweet.org

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@terryshumaker All true. I cited Wilson because I wanted to stress that uncertainty on Election Night is well over a century old -- and it took place at a time of wire service reports and the telephone. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rschles Jimmy Carter didn't win until 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning in 1976 when Mississippi (!) went for him. — PolitiTweet.org

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Funny. No one seemed to complain in 1916 when Wilson didn’t realize he had won re-election until the morning after. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidRedlawsk My obsession is to make sure the networks show an estimate of the percentage of the votes counted in each state -- and not the misleading percentage of precincts reporting. But I think we'll know a lot by 11:00 on Election Night, especially since FL and AZ count absentees early. — PolitiTweet.org

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Who knew that a wildly contrarian view of how we would handle Election Night is to predict that somehow we will muddle through? While there are risks, of course, there is the hope that the networks will behave responsibly by using those magic three words: "We don't know." — PolitiTweet.org

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I had a great time talking about election panic with @OTMBrooke. For a thrill of a new and different kind, I urge you to listen. — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course, Canada has a smaller population than the US. So if America were doing as well, we could have had as many as 9 deaths yesterday. In the whole 50 states. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @hughsansom: .@OTMBrooke @onthemedia @WNYC turns to @MrWalterShapiro @BrennanCenter for analysis on prospects for turmoil on Nov 3rd 20… — PolitiTweet.org

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Thirty-eight years later, Molly Picon starred on Broadway in "Milk and Honey," a musical about a group of Jewish widows searching for husbands in Israel. https://t.co/sTHSx2NfKh — PolitiTweet.org

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@deanbarker Senator John Warner was a lead Nixon advance man in 1960. And has endorsed Biden this time around. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @DemFromCT: @jameshohmann I read him every single day — PolitiTweet.org

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@MartinPengelly You missed “stymie” as in “the defense stymied...” — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorZero @CharlotteAlter After covering 11 campaigns, this conspiratorial craziness seems worse than it has been in my lifetime. And I lived through conspiracy theories like the Vietnam War was really about bauxite. — PolitiTweet.org

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A depressing story for democracy from @CharlotteAlter who has been doing dozens of interviews in Wisconsin: "Over a week of interviews in early September, I heard baseless conspiracies from ordinary Americans in parking lots and boutiques and strip malls." https://t.co/Udw32yv7C9 — PolitiTweet.org

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@HelenKennedy @simon_schama @samstein Bleach always worked against the Nazis. It was amazing. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rmeszoly I follow Trump's comments on Twitter and then look up the news clips if they are particularly memorable. Saves time and sanity. — PolitiTweet.org

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VP Biden at the 2012 Democratic Convention: "Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive." https://t.co/JYhoZbIChx — PolitiTweet.org

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@pattmlatimes I'm so glad that in Donald Trump's American even members of Antifa, who have no jobs other than rioting, still have the credit rating to buy a nice house in the suburbs. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rschles @republicofspin @CarlosLozadaWP Absolutely. That's what they had in common, along with Jim Fallows' 1979 Atlantic article on Carter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rschles @republicofspin @CarlosLozadaWP A discussion at the late lamented Justin Welliver Society when Stephanopoulos' book came out prompted my tweet. — PolitiTweet.org

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Not listening to speech, so I wonder whether the Democrats Trump mentions called him "sir" and invariably spoke with tears in their eyes? — PolitiTweet.org

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@republicofspin @CarlosLozadaWP Don't forget Raymond Moley's bitter "After Seven Years," which was a 1939 attack on FDR by an original member of the 1933 "Brain Trust." George Stephanopoulos' "All Too Human" (1999) begins with Governor Bill Clinton presiding over an execution mostly for political purposes. — PolitiTweet.org