Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@HillaryDouble There was a reference to jokes from "Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" in "The Music Man" which is set in Iowa before World War I. — PolitiTweet.org

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Thank you for this. Caucus turnout has varied from 140,000 to 240,000. Nobody knows the 2020 turnout number. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Long before there was “Saturday Night Live,” Mad Magazine and its “usual gang of idiots” defined subversive mass market humor. It may have been one of the most important things forging my adult worldview. And “What Me Worry?” I make no apologies. — PolitiTweet.org

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@howardfineman Tanks for the memory of how things used to be. — PolitiTweet.org

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@theblatt "You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one" — PolitiTweet.org

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My simple plan to reform cable news: 1). Only two Breaking News alerts per network per day; 2). Countdown clocks limited to space launches and nuclear war. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sfpathe: Things I did not know -- @Lagarde was an intern for then-Rep. William Cohen, who needed help translating French letters from h… — PolitiTweet.org

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In that case, let's go with the 20-million figure and leave it at that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HowardMortman I'm awed that you could find this 2012 classic so quickly. It looks so good that I might not even wait until the Fourth. — PolitiTweet.org

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I was hoping for a taped hearing of the Joint Committee on Printing instead. — PolitiTweet.org

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Google has a Happy Fourth of July widget built around baseball. I'm totally puzzled by the absence of tanks. — PolitiTweet.org

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I wish Trump would commandeer another holiday instead of the Fourth of July. There is one on the first day of April that would work just fine. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidRedlawsk The "virtual caucus" cannot be discussed in a single tweet because of complexity. And also, for the first time, we will have raw vote numbers instead of just delegate equivilents. — PolitiTweet.org

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@SteveKettmann Actually, I think I can be more help in the conceptualizing arm of the movement. — PolitiTweet.org

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@greenfield64 My gut instinct says “yes.” Voters tend not to be thrilled with candidates who really want a job that they’re no longer running for. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ClydeHaberman Also, I have always operated under the theory that the rules are different when the candidates' children are old enough to vote. — PolitiTweet.org

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I’m confused. Why did Megan Rapinoe scrub her trip to NH with the plane on the runway? And why isn’t Mike Pence playing against England? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @benensonj: I’m with @JohnAnzo on this. The media has to end its crack-like addiction to polling and Horse Race #s. Invest more in journ… — PolitiTweet.org

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@PoulMMoller @Smartypants60 That wasn't my point at all. I was referring to the Statue of Liberty in Tiananmen Square -- and how we have squandered our hard-won reputation about being an inspiration to people struggling to be free. — PolitiTweet.org

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I fantasize about one lone man or woman standing bravely in front of Trump's tanks on the Fourth of July in a Tiananmen Square-style reminder that once America was the inspiration to the world. — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidRedlawsk Of course, as you know well, nobody at this stage can predict Iowa turnout. I love asking people what's the fourth number in this sequence: 140,000 (2004), 240,000 (2008) and 180,000 (2016) and X in 2020. — PolitiTweet.org

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Correction I should have said Democratic caucus-goers. But I was in Iowa two weeks ago -- and even the activists at the state convention were struggling to get their lists down to four or five candidates. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you really believe that 79 percent of Democratic primary voters have made up their minds, then you haven't been talking to perplexed voters who are fighting to make their decisions. This is a tremendously fluid race -- and polls with 21% undecided mask that. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Edsall Most bracing piece of the evening down to Willie Brien’s fears that posterity will take his name off buildings. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jpnKevin_T @KennethBaer Just for the record, this has nothing to with Biden. A few weeks ago, I wrote an article for @newrepublic about the plague of bad polling, regardless of outcome. If you're curious, here's a link: https://t.co/vJlGr64878 — PolitiTweet.org

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This is so important. And it will not stop anyone from over-interpreting the CNN Poll. Haven't we learned anything from 2016? And it's seven months to the Iowa caucuses. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mike_littwin Totally agree. I just sense that people are treating these polling numbers are unalterable truths. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ralphgot I'm not putting Buttigieg's accomplishment down. I'm just saying that other candidates will probably try to inflate their totals by mixing in general-election funding. — PolitiTweet.org

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@AnotherMikeL I ran out of space for #6. — PolitiTweet.org

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From this early polling skeptic: 1). Will the debate effects wear off in two weeks? 2). What if another candidate has a great night the next time around? 3). What happens to polls with no debates in August? 4). How firm are preferences? 5). We don't have a national primary. — PolitiTweet.org