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Ask Roll Call: Twitter Q&A Transcript

Roll Call is continuing Twitter Q-and-A sessions. In this edition, we talked with politics reporter Shira Toeplitz.

Shira covers campaigns in the Midwest and Texas and leads redistricting coverage for Team Politics. She writes our Between the Lines coverage and is a key player on our 2012 presidential team. Don’t miss her piece from Thursday’s paper about how Members are stuck in limbo as they wait for their states’ new maps to be drawn, or this profile of possible White House contender Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (R).

Back in the day, she owned the Shop Talk column covering campaign moves and hires in the consulting world. (Kyle Trygstad handles that now.)

Follow her: @shiratoeplitz

Because it was on Twitter, of course, her answers were kept to under 140 characters. A transcript follows.



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(Editor’s note: We realized after the fact this tweeter was spoofing Sen. Claire McCaskill and was mock-asking which Republican was a better candidate to unseat her. The answer’s the same!)



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Read our previous Twitter Q&A transcripts with Steven T. Dennis here, Jennifer Bendery here, Steve Peoples here, John Stanton here, Stu Rothenberg here, Paul Singer here, the talented photo department (Tom Williams, Bill Clark, Doug Graham and Andrew Satter) here, Ambreen Ali here, Kate Ackley here, Lauren Whittington here, Daniel Newhauser here, Kyle Trygstad here and Emily Heil here.

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