Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@MarkLeibovich @SteveKornacki I am waiting for a free day and finding some missing receipts. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SteveKornacki Thanks so much for this. I had totally forgotten about it. I wonder what else that guy Shapiro said 31 years ago. — PolitiTweet.org

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@theblatt @greenfield64 You’re probably right. I just cite the technicality to stress how porous the super-delegate rule really is. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKarol Afraid we are doomed to disagree. Sorry I don’t thrill to seeing Tulsi, Steyer and Yang on the debate stage. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKarol Rules are also terribly arbitrary with no room for judgment on what’s good for the party. Reflection of a terribly weak DNC. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKarol A billionaire heavily advertising for $1 donors is gaming the system. Maybe a better example is Cory Booker being in danger of not making the December debate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@greenfield64 Technically, the Democratic convention has the power to vote to give super-delegates full voting powers on the first ballot. And super-delegates could vote on such a rules change. Convention has the power to change all rules. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DrJoanWeller1 Covered the election of Perez. It was not a Donna Brazilke conspiracy. But the 2016 Bernie supporter… https://t.co/zryni48MOH — PolitiTweet.org

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Best evidence: DNC doesn’t have the gumption to ban Tom Steyer from the debates for gaming the system, and doesn’t have the guts to stop the exclusion of Castro, the only Latino candidate. Not to mention Bullock and Bennet. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @NormOrnstein: You can only have a brokered convention if there are brokers. They really haven’t been any for a half century https://t.c… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Snapping_Bobo In 1960, there wasn’t close to the sophistication or abundance of contemporary polling. More important: JFK didn’t win the nomination until the LA convention so there was frenzied, unscientific plotting best described by Robert Caro. — PolitiTweet.org

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Just a periodic reminder that VPs tend to be chosen about three weeks before the convention based on elaborate polling as to the nominee’s weaknesses. As a result, it’s foolish to speculate or push this far in advance. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Can't buy me love." — PolitiTweet.org

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@david_darmofal @SeanTrende @julia_azari @eitanhersh And as I recall, Calment actively disliked Van Gogh because he was mean. I have always filed this away as enduring lesson that temperament and kindness are more important than raw talent over the very long haul. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GenCounselWolf McCarthy was on the ballot, I believe. But it was an epic beat defeat of LBJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JLasaine @DKarol Can't blame White for what, say, Mark Halperin did with his franchise. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKarol @JLasaine @RuleandRuin A little reminiscent of the non-Trump Republicans in 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JLasaine @DKarol I teach a course on all of this at Yale, starting with "Making of the President 1960." Before Teddy White, too much of newspaper coverage was stenography and not color nor analysis. There are wonderful bits in the "Making of the President 1960." — PolitiTweet.org

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@DKarol @JLasaine Polling was much more infrequent. And primaries, even in the best of circumstances, are very hard to handicap. Also, the press corps consistently overstated the power of Rockefeller's money, subconsciously partly because they so enjoyed Rocky's hospitality and free drinks. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JLasaine @DKarol Still, the important thing was that it was a write-in without much of a campaign, unlike, say, Ike in 1952. Teddy White offers a good recount of the Lodge upset in "Making of the President 1964." — PolitiTweet.org

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@JLasaine @DKarol I know that the winner of the 1964 GOP primary didn't scuttle the League of Nations. — PolitiTweet.org

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Can’t resist adding my favorite fun NH fact: Henry Cabot Lodge (while LBJ’s ambassador to Saigon) won the 1964 GOP primary as a write-in. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JillDLawrence I tweeted almost the same thing at the same moment. — PolitiTweet.org

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Let's see if I get it straight: Nunes is upset that the public hearings are a waste, but secret depositions are also terrible. His position doesn't leave many options. — PolitiTweet.org

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@kellabel Democrat Denny Heck from Washington State. — PolitiTweet.org

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Tip for Democrats: Leaving the yeilling to Jim Jordan. Phrases like “I am angry” undermine the Democrats’ powerful just-the-facts approach. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelMcGough3 Proper format is “Olig.” — PolitiTweet.org

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@RobMajor4 Betamax wasn’t introduced until the late 1970s, after Watergate. That said, PBS did repeat the hearings in the evenings. — PolitiTweet.org

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These hearings are so riveting that I wonder how I can get anything else done in the weeks ahead. I am trying to recall how people dealt with these time pressures during the Senate Watergate hearings. — PolitiTweet.org

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Lines like Yovanovich telling Castor, "As I told you before..." does cut into the Republican "secret hearings where we couldn't participate" story line. — PolitiTweet.org