Larry Sabato
Larry Sabato
Larry Joseph Sabatois an American political scientist and political analyst. He is the Robert Kent Gooch Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, where he is also the founder and director of the Center for Politics, which works to promote civic engagement and participation. The Center for Politics is also responsible for the publication of Sabato's Crystal Ball, an online newsletter and website that provides free political analysis and electoral projections...
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If Warner can't swing the election to his own lieutenant governor with a popularity rating of 75 percent, then Democrats have the right to ask, 'Can this guy really swing any Southern states or was this a fluke?
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If you end up separating yourself from the president of your party, you are going to turn off a certain number of partisans.
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If you look at the polls carefully, they show that Americans are disaffected with the Bush administration policy in Iraq, but have very little confidence in the Democrats on that score either.
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He's secretive by nature. It's a dumb thing for officials to do, especially someone as experienced as Cheney. Just imagine what Jon Stewart, Jay Leno and David Letterman are going to do to him for days. It's a self-inflicted wound.
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He starts out as a clear favorite, and he'll be a heavy favorite if the congresswoman doesn't run again him,
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He's radiating confidence; it may even be bravado, ... He was thinking ahead. This could have been a very damaging photo. Instead I think most people will look at this and chuckle.
doubt
I doubt that they will every be as unanimous as they once were.
reality race media
The national media will talk about (national problems) because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are minor factors. These are local races. ... The issues tend to be less ideological than for Senate races or races for president. ... It's about potholes and streetlights.
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People are trying to decide whether the man-made disaster is worse than Mother Nature's disaster.
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The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.
believe live-in-the-moment today
We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
party president structure
Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.