Walter Shapiro

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Sept. I970 Harris Poll in midst of Nixon law-and-order campaign: (How would you rate President Nixon on each of the following--excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?)... His approach to crime and law and order. 39%Favorable 55%Unfavorable 6%Not sure https://t.co/Vh080fXENb — PolitiTweet.org

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Here's my @newrepublic piece that argues that, for the most part, Nixon's 1968 and 1970 law-and-order campaigns didn't work politically. Especially in 1970. And when they did work, it was almost as much the cultural war against radical students as race. https://t.co/Vh080fXENb — PolitiTweet.org

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@shua_bragg And the cultural war against radical students. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ForecasterEnten Entire piece will be up on the web within the hour. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 @SenatorZero @newrepublic I stopped my research with the 1970 campaign since the racial aspects of the Nixon-Agnew attacks were muted as the 1968 riots receded into memory. And, yes, it would have been the McGovern-Shapiro ticket. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorZero @TimothyNoah1 @newrepublic No, the Republicans pre-Newt wrote off the House. A lot happened between September 1970 and November 1972. Maybe if the Democrats had nominated Muskie, things might have been a lot closer. But the evidence from 1970 is pretty clear-cut. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 @newrepublic Maybe a little in 1968. But were it not for Anna Chennault, the 1968 election would have gone to the Democratic House that would have elected Humphrey. And in 1970, the Agnew law-and-order campaign was a political disaster. Piece should be up today. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 No. It explains why with 25 Democratic seats on the ballot in 1970, the Republicans only netted two. And the Democrats picked up 11 governorships that year, their biggest gain since 1970. From a forthcoming piece of mine for @newrepublic. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sept. I970 Harris Poll in midst of Nixon-Agnew law-and-order congressional campaign: (How would you rate President Nixon on each of the following--excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?)... His approach to crime and law and order. 39%Favorable 55%Unfavorable 6%Not sure — PolitiTweet.org

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@nielslesniewski What do you think the odds are on that one? — PolitiTweet.org

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Those of us who don't know Minneapolis are finding it hard to grasp how the police could be this out of control with a Democratic governor and mayor. — PolitiTweet.org

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But didn't it get Herbert Hoover reelected against that elitist upstart from New York, Franklin Roosevelt? — PolitiTweet.org

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A potent argument for not giving Trump the kind of no-masks, no-social-distancing convention that he so desperately craves. — PolitiTweet.org

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@k8croy You never know when you might have a need to check out the original text of the famous "water closet" joke that was too risque for television. — PolitiTweet.org

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@eigerjoch And, while I'm doing this from memory, I thought it meant that the Nixon Justice Department was talking a tougher game about rolling back civil rights enforcement than they were in practice. But I may have gotten that wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SenatorZero John Farrell’s Nixon biography is particularly good on the call that never happened. — PolitiTweet.org

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Even though all through the 1950s, Nixon had a better record (including internally in the Eisenhower White House) on civil rights than Kennedy did. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MilliganSusan I always wondered what Tulsi's deal was with the billboard industry. They were omnipresent in NH as well -- and the strategy (if there was one) seemed beyond baffling. — PolitiTweet.org

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"The dream shall never die." — PolitiTweet.org

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Having just watched the Biden video, forgive me a cliche when I say that he looked and sounded presidential. Which, dare I suggest, isn't the norm these days. — PolitiTweet.org

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Of course in national polls about this time in 1992, it was Clinton who was running third. Just a reminder that campaigns and weird actions by third-party candidates (Perot) can dramatically change things. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rschles When 1939-41 hits, I may never end my house arrest. — PolitiTweet.org

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https://t.co/ySWvVKzMHf — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop I am already in with 300 Gretchen Whitmers and 300 Elizabeth Warrens. Not sure this is a good year for law enforcement background, since every case will be dredged up, fairly or not. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop @HotlineJosh I'd sell those shares fast: https://t.co/ACi2LwtRry — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HotlineJosh: Paging Amy Klobuchar... https://t.co/MnSG6lwccQ — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop Part of the problem, I fear, is that Lindsay had the contact list of the real powers in Harlem and most politicians today have the contact list of other politicians. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is a wonderful piece on 1968. I wish that the political leadership in Minneapolis would read it and have the ability to do something analogous. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Huntoon38 So many copies on TV are paperbacks that look like they've never been opened. — PolitiTweet.org

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@swin24 @ENBrown I thought the same thing for a moment. But then I realized that this has been the theme all the way through "Mrs. America" -- that Schlafly was as much of a feminist as Steinem in terms of ambition in the workplace. It didn't need to be repeated in the onscreen epilogue. — PolitiTweet.org