Walter Shapiro

Walter Shapiro @MrWalterShapiro

@MedlinWrites Car and beer ads seem a lot more wholesome for image-conscious baseball. — PolitiTweet.org

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Watching the ads in the Cards-Dodgers game. What were the odds 20 years ago that the two biggest advertisers in a big baseball game would be a Viagra competitor (Roman) and a gambling app (Draft King)? — PolitiTweet.org

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@Hammbear @ZacMcCrary @greenfield64 @MichaelBarone I was in Minnesota covering the Senate race the week before Wellstone died. And I am almost certain he would have beaten Norm Coleman. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ZacMcCrary No way to know for sure. Wellstone was the favorite senator I ever covered. And unlike Sanders he was warm and human and blessed with a great sense of humor. — PolitiTweet.org

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Despite his bad back, Wellstone probably would have run in 2004 as the passionate antiwar candidate. That would have opened up a route for Dean as the health-care expert who also opposed Iraq. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop In deference to our League of Cities speaking invite, I have to end with the reminder that Dick Lugar (Indianapolis) was Richard Nixon's favorite mayor before he was elected to the Senate. — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop I don't know from politics west of the Missouri River. My knowledge stops on Iowa's western border. That said, from a quick scan of Wikipedia (and a reminder of Sam Yorty's presidential campaign) my guess is the answer is "no." — PolitiTweet.org

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@mattizcoop Robert Wagner, then mayor, also lost a 1956 race for the Senate to Jacob Javits. There was, however, nothing memorable about Wagner's loss in the Eisenhower second term landslide. — PolitiTweet.org

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@michaelscherer Agree that's the more relevant number from this poll. Can you imagine one-third of all Democrats saying that Biden shouldn't remain a national figure? — PolitiTweet.org

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No mayor of New York City has been elected to any other public office since the 19th century. Not president and certainly not governor. — PolitiTweet.org

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@dcg1114 The Times has a great Sports section if you follow European soccer and obscure sports from around the world. When it comes to baseball, I am a home delivery subscriber to the Post. — PolitiTweet.org

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In contrast, try the current yawn-inspiring online Times hed: "Yankees Are Done. A Frustrating Season Ends in a Wild-Card Loss." — PolitiTweet.org

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@sportswatch @DanHayesMLB Of course, there was no NFL or NBA from 1905-1921 and the NHL was only in Canada. — PolitiTweet.org

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Can’t wait to read tomorrow’s NY Post sports section and the gentle, caring way they will treat the Yankees. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BillCunningham8 @paulschwartzman This is what you get from a TV crew that seemingly hates baseball. — PolitiTweet.org

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Memo to @mlb. I would pay a lot of money to see to tonight’s game with a single camera behind home plate that showed the defensive shifts and doesn’t move nine times between pitches. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @RogersParkMan: Dear @mlb TV people: given the omnipresent defensive shifts now deployed, please give viewers an establishing shot of th… — PolitiTweet.org

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I am waiting for Red Sox fans to start chanting derisively, “2009. 2009.” The Red Sox have won two World Series since then. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JillDLawrence: .@MrWalterShapiro: "Successful legislating requires the patience of a therapist, the flexibility of a gymnast, the vague… — PolitiTweet.org

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From my @rollcall column about Biden and Capitol Hill: "Why, over a four-year term, does a president have to win plaudits every single week? How often are off-year congressional races decided by the news cycle 400 days before Election Day?" https://t.co/gXDX1EH84g — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @rollcall: OPINION: As president, Joe Biden has been strategizing like a legislator, not like a commander-in-chief, @MrWalterShapiro wri… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mattizcoop: Great from @MrWalterShapiro on a verbal tell that’s starting to rival Obama’s “the notion that…" — PolitiTweet.org

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I would guess that nobody in Trump world has ever heard of Stephen Colbert's parody Super PAC, "Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow," — PolitiTweet.org

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The longer Facebook is out, the more I fear that all the cute kitten videos will migrate to Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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@JamesWetzler9 Yeah, but since the Democrats are already voting to raise the debt limit and are supporting multi-trillion-spending programs, the GOP will not lack fodder for attacks ads without silly gamesmanship during reconciliation. — PolitiTweet.org

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Let me correct an error: Aside from the times when an incumbent was running, no one since Nixon in 1960 has been handed a nomination without a protracted fight. And in 1980 and 1992, incumbents had to fight for renomination. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChrisGaldieri And because Bradley lost NH (even though it was close), his campaign was devastated by the (working from memory here) five-week gap until the next Democratic primaries. It is why that he lost NY and NJ, which seemed impossible when the former NY Knick got into the race. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ChrisGaldieri As you know, Bradley in 2000 was a much more serious challenger to Gore than his losing streak in the primaries would suggest. — PolitiTweet.org

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No one since Richard Nixon in 1960 has been handed the presidential nomination of an out-of-power party without a protracted fight. It's why I agree that Trump's renomination is neither inevitable nor likely without spirited opposition. — PolitiTweet.org

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"Stop playing Russian roulette with the American economy" is the best Biden line that I have heard in a while. — PolitiTweet.org