Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

RT @newrepublic: In a sense, there’s a knowing innocence about Elaine Luria, in her steadfast faith that America’s better angels can still… — PolitiTweet.org

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Baseball interlude: Fangraphs gives the Orioles a 46% chance of making the post-season. This is such an amazing and gratifying comeback story. And Bautista will be great as the new Closer. https://t.co/TsNfid0guP — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZacMcCrary @GoldsmithB Yes, especially in 1988, because he had an epic fund-raising network and Democrats really had problems raising money in this era. That said, he was a weird candidate with all the affect of a basketball. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZacMcCrary @GoldsmithB His money machine was impressive. Had he not had a heart palpitation there is a good shot he would have won NH. Instead, enough independents fled to McCain who won by 20 points, even though his polling lead was 10 points. Had Bradley won NH, Gore would have been in a long fight. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GoldsmithB Bradley, whom I covered, was certainly considered a spirited rival in late 1999. — PolitiTweet.org

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@GoldsmithB Absolutely. Bradley raised as much money as the sitting VP. What did Bradley in was losing NH by 6,000 votes and then having to deal with a bizarre 5-week lag on the Democratic side before the Super Tuesday primaries. All attention shifted to the McCain challenge to Bush. — PolitiTweet.org

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@robstockman2 @davidjoemax @mattyglesias If you covered the race as I did or if you closely read the clips, you would get a sense of how contested the race was. Bradley was undone by his narrow loss in NH followed by a 5-week gap without another primary contest. Reading the list of primaries from Wikipedia is deceptive. — PolitiTweet.org

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@innerpeece @mattyglesias The original discussion was beginning in 1960. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidjoemax @mattyglesias Bradley made a strategic error to fight in Iowa and it became his Vietnam -- in too deep to get out and impossible to win. But it is important to realize that Bradley raised as much money as Gore. — PolitiTweet.org

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@davidjoemax @mattyglesias Bradley came within 6000 votes of winning the NH primary. What did Bradley in was a deadly five-week gap between on the Democratic side between NH and Super Tuesday. Meanwhile, all press and public attention was riveted on the fight between McCain and George W. Bush. — PolitiTweet.org

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@robstockman2 @davidjoemax @mattyglesias Gore did have a strong challenge from Bill Bradley, who raised as much money. The problem was that Bradley lost the NH primary to Gore by 6,000 votes. And, then because of the weirdness of the Democrats' primary schedule, there was not another delegate contest for 5 weeks. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattyglesias Closest analogy was Nixon in 1968, who almost lost the nomination in Miami Beach to a de facto alliance between Rockefeller and Reagan. — PolitiTweet.org

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Nobody other than an incumbent president has won a nomination in either party without a spirited challenge since 1960. Last time was Nixon in 1960 and even then Rockefeller almost challenged him. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JohnRobertAnde3 I picked up the bio in a used bookstore a few years ago. You have given me the impetus to read it. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JillDLawrence: During the primetime #J6 hearing last month, @RepElaineLuria received "more national TV exposure than many veteran legis… — PolitiTweet.org

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.@JillDLawrence, who got her start with the AP in WV, writes an optimistic (yes, optimistic) piece on the hopes for the laggard state with the new Manchin-Schumer climate bill. https://t.co/P3slvvVjEG — PolitiTweet.org

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This is from my major Elaine Luria profile. She is the only endangered Democrat on the January 6 committee. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JillDLawrence: .@MrWalterShapiro on @LucasKunceMO, a John Fetterman-Tim Ryan type of candidate "who thinks he can win back Missouri wit… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @patcaldwell: Ahead of tonight's primary results in Missouri, read @MrWalterShapiro on the interesting campaign being run by Democrat @L… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @silviakillings: I am begging you, please stop hyphenating your -ly adverbs — PolitiTweet.org

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@HenryJGomez Isn’t primary eve a tad late for the Bernie endorsement? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jackmokan @newrepublic @JeffSmithMO How I miss her. — PolitiTweet.org

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Line of the day. In my @newrepublic piece on Lucas Kunce, I quote @JeffSmithMO on Kunce's Senate primary opponent, a self-funding beer heiress. Smith says, “She’s Herschel Walker with more money and fewer concussions.” https://t.co/xvMQIHL9Vt — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @newrepublic: With his populist, anti-corporate arguments, Lucas Kunce comes out of the Truman “give them hell” tradition, writes @MrWal… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Bencjacobs I'm beaten. You win. — PolitiTweet.org

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Most damning headline of the month (British Royals division): "Prince Charles accepted £1m from family of Osama bin Laden." https://t.co/ImERf0TMHc — PolitiTweet.org

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@OKnox @RadioFreeTom @MollyJongFast You win that round. — PolitiTweet.org

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@alexheard You have impeccable taste in lottery jokes that neither of us are telling. — PolitiTweet.org

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My gift to the world -- no jokes about lottery tickets. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@joshuasharf @RadioFreeTom @elechner1 @JillDLawrence Sorry. I am not a China expert nor do I play one on TV. — PolitiTweet.org