Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

It is the best book I read this year. I just finished it. And kudos to the Pulitzer jury for choosing it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @simon_schama: I know it’s no consolation at all but the ND spire was a 19th century restoration by Viollet- le-Duc; much damaged origin… — PolitiTweet.org

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@LewisWade35 Sorry for the obscurity. I was jumping off from the workmen who apparently inadvertently set Notre Dame on fire. — PolitiTweet.org

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All I can think about is how a Venetian attack on the Turks in the Acropolis in 1687 set off a power magazine that destroyed much of the Parthenon. I have often wondered if the Venetian commander ever realized what he had done. — PolitiTweet.org

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Call me when Predictit starts laying odds on who Buttigieg's running mate will be be. Or better yet, alert me when the rail birds are picking Mayor Pete's Cabinet. — PolitiTweet.org

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The subhed ain't bad either: "Gunman forces woman to decapitate tavern owner." — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnJHarwood Somehow Mitch McConnell's state beat out Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MontaigneGhost Babbitt, in particular, ran a terrific campaign with no resources. This was the campaign when Mike McCurry, his press secretary, wrote half of "Hotline" every day by sending it to them. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnastoehr I'm more charitable to Anderson. He developed a following in the GOP primaries in 1980, he had distinctly moderate views and his independent campaign collapsed y because of the "wasted-vote" problem. I guess i can make the same case for Lugar in 1996. But Specter or Milton Shapp? — PolitiTweet.org

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It's a fun piece. But how could you not highlight John Connally's single delegate in 1980? Or give more than a sentence to Rudy's flameout in 2008? Then there are the disastrous campaigns of such Washington fixtures as Arlen Specter, Richard Lugar and the late Fritz Hollings. — PolitiTweet.org

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And if you think that the 2020 general election campaign will be influenced by first quarter 2019 fund-raising numbers, I think you might want to re-examine your approach to political causation. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Eugene Debs, who was Bernie's hero, never to my knowledge was obsessed with his press clips. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EBOlady @BillKristol I came to the Upper West Side in 1983. The Chock Full O'Nuts that I recall were in midtown, highly favored by my mother on trips into the city. — PolitiTweet.org

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@EBOlady @BillKristol I'm too busy standing waiting for a seat at the counter at Chock Full O'Nuts to think of Shraftt's. — PolitiTweet.org

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From a Politico subhed: "Trump White House aides insist they have nothing to fear from the special counsel's nearly 400-page report." As Mandy Rice-Davies might have put it, "They would say that, wouldn't they?" https://t.co/cLAv1X4mLV — PolitiTweet.org

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@DanBender_SJ I cling to the belief about a restoration too. But I do worry that Trump will leave behind so many temptations for Democrats to game the system that they too, on occasion, will be unable to resist. — PolitiTweet.org

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@charlesmurray Since I think the world of my literary agent, I hope I was making the distinction between Hollywood and book-lined NY offices. Somehow neither of my two books have been packaged with a movie star, a director or all the money going to the agent in some under-the-table deal. — PolitiTweet.org

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I know little about the inner workings of Hollywood. But, in popular imagery, is there an occupational category (non-White House) that comes across as filled with less sympathetic figures than Hollywood agents? In contrast to these agents, used-car dealers are considered saintly. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MilliganSusan I do remember the "Pander Bear." But the well-meaning Tsongas campaign couldn't find a real stuffed panda so that they had to go with a stuffed Teddy Bear. — PolitiTweet.org

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From my @rollcall column: "Trump has safeguarded his own tax returns with a zeal that national security officials wish that the president also applied to top-secret information." Kirstjen Nielsen also gets a good-bye-don't-let-the-door-hit-you farewell: https://t.co/ajxJMYzUfV — PolitiTweet.org

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My proudest boast: I never wrote a word about Michael Avenatti for president. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MilliganSusan I remember interviewing Tsongas right after NH in 1992. He said that now only three people could be president in 1993 — Bush, Clinton or him. — PolitiTweet.org

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That rule allowed Clinton in 1992 to claim he was the “Comeback Kid” after losing NH to Tsongas. — PolitiTweet.org

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This is just one of many Avenatti stories from the fall of 2018 that have not, shall we say, stood the test of time: https://t.co/ZGHlHRkSW4 — PolitiTweet.org

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There's still a block of 8 tickets in the center of the fifth row at $125 each to see Bill and Hillary at the Beacon Theater on the Upper West Side tonight. I live nearby and I might be tempted to go, but, alas, I will be rearranging my sock drawer. — PolitiTweet.org

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@HelenKennedy It works if you build really big building and get air rights over Madison Avenue. — PolitiTweet.org

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@opinion_joe @saletan @joshtpm @NateSilver538 It is folly to believe that you can correctly sense who is the most electable Democrat 10 months before IA and NH. And 11 months before the CA primary. None of us have any idea how Harris will wear or not wear when the race begins in earnest. — PolitiTweet.org

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Another installment of that continuing Washington series entitled, "What In Hell Were They Thinking?" — PolitiTweet.org

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@mvlacich I have always liked the UNH Polls that consistently ask about how certain are you of your choice -- and, in a confusing multi-candidate race, that number of volatile voters tends to be around 75-80 percent in April of the odd-numbered year. — PolitiTweet.org

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Don't believe any NH poll that has "No Opinion" at 13 percent and "Somebody Else" at 5 percent in April of an odd-numbered year. This poll implies that 80 percent of NH voters have made up their minds which is ludicrous. — PolitiTweet.org