Walter Shapiro

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@tomfitzgerald And a Ben Franklin for the road. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JoeDiSano The column is certainly...err...original. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rawatersjr @kausmickey Democrats in 2020 will, for the first time, release the raw vote totals of initial candidate preferences at the caucuses that should lessen the coin flip problem. That said, I'm defending NH and not the caucus system. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rawatersjr @kausmickey It was 1988 and not 1984. And Paul Simon believed to his dying day that he was robbed in IA. Also, remember that for two weeks the IA GOP claimed that Romney and not Santorum won in 2012. That said, the Democratic counting is a lot better these days. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rawatersjr @kausmickey Actually, we don't have that many small states that are compact and are not in the shadow of a bigger media market than Boston. VT and ME too rural. RI too corrupt. CT too close to NY. DE too close to Philadelphia. Western states too big. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rawatersjr @kausmickey I have problems with the often low turnout Iowa caucuses. But having covered 11 NH primaries, I don't see the arrogance or overweening sense of entitlement. Also the changed media environment may give a smaller edge to candidates from MA. — PolitiTweet.org

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@rawatersjr @kausmickey Don't forget Vermont for Sanders in 2016. — PolitiTweet.org

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@TimothyNoah1 Just saw "The General" on TCM. It would have been amazing even if Keaton had used a stuntman. — PolitiTweet.org

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@roberns https://t.co/B7lHkBhDUq — PolitiTweet.org

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When Buster Keaton performed in vaudeville with his parents, they threw him around the stage with such abandon that they sewed luggage handles onto the shoulders of his clothes so they could get a better grip. With a childhood like that, a falling building was child's play. — PolitiTweet.org

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That’s the deciding vote for me. When the Electoral College loses Barbra Streisand.... — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman You win that round. — PolitiTweet.org

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@bstnboy You don't have to convince me. Though it is amusing that many of the GOP senators spending money for events at Trump properties also claim that they want the Supreme Court to obediently follow the literal text of the Constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

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I would love a list of the 8 Trump Cabinet members and the 27 GOP senators who have somehow resisted the siren song of spending money in Trump Land. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Steven_Strauss Trying to follow the British press on what happened to today is as close as I'm likely to ever come to understanding what it must be like to be an "English as a second language" student. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Steven_Strauss Truthfully, I had to look it up. — PolitiTweet.org

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Why is that every time I read a British political story about "losing the whip," all I can think of is that must be an erudite reference to the Marquis de Sade or British boarding schools? https://t.co/cfEwAeBKmk — PolitiTweet.org

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@k8croy Here's the poll I referred to: https://t.co/3sjmcmArRt — PolitiTweet.org

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@aedwardslevy Mystery solved on why the link was dead. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dkahanerules Better that you gave to (yikes!) Marianne Williamson. — PolitiTweet.org

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Most useful and insightful poll that I have read in weeks. First poll that I can recall that mirrors the cheerful struggles of many Democratic primary voters still searching for a candidate. https://t.co/KFJfo0fv9d — PolitiTweet.org

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This also explains why I have been to just one baseball game this season living in NYC. And the security theater is everywhere -- with metal detectors to get into sleepy spring training games between the Blue Jays and the Tigers. — PolitiTweet.org

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Another profile in courage. Mattis should know that one of the revered traditions in a democracy is both resigning in protest — and speaking out afterwards. — PolitiTweet.org

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Wait until next year when he congratulated France on the 80th anniversary of surrendering to the Nazis. — PolitiTweet.org

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@lindseyadler “Time After Time,” a haunting recent novel by Lisa Grunwald that will cause you to see Grand Central Station as a magical place. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidaxelrod @HacksOnTap @mmckinnon @SHO_TheCircus @CNN Wish I had written a great line like "He's All Hat, No Prattle." — PolitiTweet.org

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I think the night before the Iowa caucuses is too early to award any candidate with Teflon status. (Kudos to Pat Schroeder who brought this kitchen image to politics to describe Reagan). — PolitiTweet.org

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@pattmlatimes We're kinda crowded here on the East Coast. But I see your point. — PolitiTweet.org

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@pattmlatimes This is where it gets tricky since do you add Long Island and Westchester and northern NJ to the total for NYC? A lot of the out-migration from NYC is to nearly suburbs which would be the equivalent of LA County. — PolitiTweet.org

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A fascinating article. One problem with statistics, though, is that NY State numbers are deeply affected by the sharp population decline in Upstate New York. But the larger point that high costs drive out some people and others come for the high salaries is true on both coasts. — PolitiTweet.org