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Amy Walter

lines on the record: 59
first: 2021-08-05
most recent: 2021-08-05
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“She knew that even then, right? Of like, okay, these are, and I think, and she also is, and I get this too, you know, she loves the underdog teams too. Everybody loves the Cubs. Nobody's given any love to the White Sox. And so to be there, I think I was in high school. When was it that they went to the AL championship? Yeah. Right. So that was a big.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She did not. She was, you'll appreciate that she was the White Sox fan in the family. I think usually they're the Cubs fans, right? But both my parents grew up and very working class families in New Haven. And I think her identity with that is what connected her with the White Sox, right? The White Sox are the Southside team, the working class team, and the Cubs are too bougie. Right. Those aren't my, that's not my.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In Barrington, close to Arlington Heights. Yeah. You know, I know that train line very well. All the different stuffs between there and downtown. But it was your classic sort of suburban life that I led. And also because my parents were not Native Midwesterners, we did not have the attachment to the place that many of my friends did, right? all their cousins and their families and the connection there. So it was a lovely place to grow up, but I did not feel like it was sort of an ancestral home.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sort of go He was a money manager. Basically, he was at that time managing pension accounts, right? So for corporations and nonprofits and things like that, he was your classic, David. You appreciate this, the guy who would get up early, get on the Chicago Northwestern, take the train, where specific?”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The suburbs of Chicago. My parents moved out to Chicago in the mid 60s. They're both from New Haven, Connecticut, and my father moved out with my mom. They were married at the time out to California. He went to business school out there, but was looking for a place to come and work. He was in finance. didn't want to go to New York. So Chicago was a good place.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To get the Masonian, it should be. I think he's had it around still for a while. You know, like one of those, I don't know if it was actually the kind where you had to put the cards in it or something. Or crank.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sources on both sides so that and sort of cut through all of this noise to give you the real unfiltered, unvarnished truth about the campaigns and elections. And it started on basically an old-fashioned computer, which was an old-fashioned then. But if you've seen the original Cook political reports, they came out on paper and they were really that, again, the first of the first of its kind of trying to assess and make sense of campaigns. And it was a labor of love for Charlie. He loved politics. He still loves politics. He's still going to be involved. In the analysis business, but being able to do it from a perch that wasn't partisan was really a new idea back in 1984.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know everything, yes. But, and you know, you go back to that era and look, obviously you still had campaigns and campaign donors, but you didn't have the sort of referees in the way that we think about them now, right? Somebody coming in and being a nonpartisan arbiter of campaigns and elections to say, look, These are the races that are real. These are the races that aren't. I know you're getting spun by all kinds of people about this person or this race or what's happening big picture-wise. I'm just going to tell you what's really going on. And I'm going to build up.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, that's a great question. So you have to go all the way back to 1984. I won't. You, how old I was. I was alive. So let's be really clear. I know how old you are.”
2021-08-05 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 454 — Amy Walter · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source