Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@larry_kunz I make the NRA a large subset of the "pro-gun lobby." — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

In a world where Super PACs can drop $10-$20 million on a single race, NRA funding is like coins under the sofa cushions. Many things explain the NRA's horrendous stranglehold on the GOP -- but following the money does not provide much of an explanation. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MarkLeibovich I'm humbled at the consolation prize. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@DKarol I can? Be still my beating heart. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Tragically, this is another year when I'm not a Davos Man. Oh, the unfairness of life. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

See a pattern with Trump-endorsed candidates? J.D. Vance won in Ohio with 32%. Dr. Oz got 31% in PA. Madison Cawthorn got (wait for it) 32%. Two recent GA polls have David Perdue at 30% and 28%, Me in @newrepublic: https://t.co/mNQvDmTpZz — PolitiTweet.org

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Me in @newrepublic "Politics is almost always about the future. But Trump is permanently mired in November 2020. As the Georgia primaries are likely to show, sometimes the circus moves on and the chief clown is left behind where the big top used to stand." https://t.co/mNQvDmTpZz — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZacMcCrary I had forgotten. You win this evening's round. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ZacMcCrary Not even a Mike Gravel, who beat Gruening in a 1968 primary. It troubles me that I remember all this, but not where I left my keys. — PolitiTweet.org

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For novelty, I'd go with Abe Hirshfeld for Senate. For history, I would go with "Morse" as one of two members of Congress who voted against the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution. And I have a soft spot for the 1968 McCarthy for President button. — PolitiTweet.org

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Senator Bentsen ran 1.7 million votes ahead of VP Bentsen. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty You're too generous. Your "1's" instead of "0's" are the latest manifestation of grade inflation. — PolitiTweet.org

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It's a good column from @jilldlawrence. At some point (pray God) at least a fragment of the Republican Party will realize these daily mass murders can't go on. As a Republican economist Herb Stein once said, "If something can't go on for ever, it will stop." Here's hoping. — PolitiTweet.org

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@MichaelMcGough3 Because they got tired of calling me — since I haven’t owned a car in 30 years. They figured you might really believe that your auto warranty expired. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JillDLawrence: Classic @MrWalterShapiro on the Dems' "meh-ga" slogan: The underlying political logic behind attacking “MAGA Republicans… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the greatest loss of intellectual talent in the Republican Party since Al D'Amato defeated Jacob Javits in a 1980 Senate primary. Politics is just so cruel. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sahilkapur Thanks for picking up my favorite bit from the column. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @sahilkapur: “Democrats are ensnared in the campaign consultant trap. The president’s party is animated by the belief that some politica… — PolitiTweet.org

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@GoldsmithB @MerylGordon Aw, c'mon. Ain't I entitled to a little family pride? — PolitiTweet.org

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Attention must be paid: The estimable @MerylGordon has a fascinating book review that just went up in the New York Times: https://t.co/DpCu7zRNH9 — PolitiTweet.org

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@BillTaggert1 You win. Ronald Reagan would have lost in 2032. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BillTaggert1 Black voters were 10% of the electorate in 1984 and 13% in 2020, according to exit polls. Hispanics went from 3% to 13%. Even with 74 percent white voters, Reagan would have won nearly half the vote. Plus he won 1/3 of Hispanics, which would have easily put him over the top. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BillTaggert1 Reagan won the 1984 election by 17 million votes. Can't blame that one on demographics. — PolitiTweet.org

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Me in @rollcall: "After a president unveils a political slogan, aides eagerly leak the details of the arduous decision-making that went into the word choice. They make it seem like the Manhattan Project was a casual endeavor compared to the slogan search." https://t.co/4dfoKZljbH — PolitiTweet.org

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@ktumulty Ssshhh! Don’t tell the Republicans about Reagan. They couldn’t take it. They will need smelling salts when they learn that he raised taxes in 1982 and then later ended the special tax rate for capital gains. — PolitiTweet.org

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This would seem -- in theory -- like an opportunity for a younger vigorous third candidate to sneak in with 35 percent of the primary vote while Nadler and Maloney eviscerate each other. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Let me add my kazoo to the cheering throngs. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Finally, something happened that brought me close to quitting Twitter. I was urged to follow @BilldeBlasio. Yikes. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@ktumulty This is what I get for my inability to count the number of traffic lights in a set of photos designed to weed out bots. The story of my life -- misunderstood. — PolitiTweet.org

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

Could someone explain to me why anyone let an algorithm pick tweets for them? The whole appeal of Twitter was that you could escape the algorithms that destroyed Facebook. — PolitiTweet.org