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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Rarely do you have a governor who's already been U.N. ambassador and energy secretary as well as congressman. I mean he really does have a very rich resume. This just underlines it for Democratic primary and caucus voters,
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Yes, Virginia voters will approve the amendment when asked, probably handily. After all, it gives them the right to re-elect a governor they like. They can still send packing a governor they dislike.
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It's very hard for governors to say they're on their own. Inevitably, there's going to be taxpayer funds involved in their social life because they're being guarded, they don't drive themselves, there's someone driving a limousine. Taxpayer funds are always used in one way or another, and that gives the press an opportunity to cover it.
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It's been a very successful term. It's hard to describe it any other way. He came in at a tough time. There was no money. The Republicans had just taken a landslide in the legislature. Things didn't look good. But he worked through the problems and ended up triumphant. It's a storybook ending. I didn't see that coming. Frequently these businessmen governors who've never been elected to anything before, flop. So he's the exception.
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Very few of them have that much energy. He had his hand in everything. He was interested in everything. That's a governor making the most out of a term.
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The people running for governor or senator or president have been among society's winners. To get to that point, they always believe they can beat the odds because they've done that before.
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If the people of Louisiana are lucky, both the governor and the mayor will appoint personal representatives who will work with one another, ... In other words, they can get the bad blood out of the room by delegating it away.
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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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I've probably seen 200-plus state polls over the past six months, and McCain is leading almost everywhere, and where he doesn't lead, Rudy Giuliani is ahead. All the other candidates are just footnotes.
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The sixth year of a two-term president's administration is typically an opportunity for voters to send a message. It's not going to be a pretty message for Bush, if his popularity stays this low.
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The Senate and the House are at loggerheads, and it would be virtually impossible for the leaders of those two houses to be close friends under those circumstances. It would lead to suspicions from their respective caucuses.
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Is it possible that he can come back? Sure. There have been some tremendous and significant rebounds in American history and this would be one of them.
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I sincerely believe he did try to talk Card out of it, he didn't want to accept this ... and I was told that by somebody who has some knowledge of it.
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Is he running purely because of personal ambition, or is he the head of a movement? ... We remember the heads of movements.