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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The loser will have millions of people nursing that grievance for four years, and that will prove invaluable.
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It could have an effect, ... It will certainly make it more difficult to reach a consensus on immigration.
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It is a constant struggle for most public officials between representing average constituents and taking care of the interest groups and wealthy individuals who fund the campaigns.
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I think they have to do something prior to November 2006, to show they understand they have overspent and are determined to do something about it.
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If Warner doesn't find a strong candidate, he'll be held to account by national Democratic activists who vote in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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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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For Bush, it's a manmade political disaster on top of a natural disaster. The Bush administration could not have done much worse, it really couldn't. They appeared detached and slow to realize the seriousness of the situation.
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For a first-year senator, that was a lot for him to try to chew on. It was a pretty successful bite.
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It's awful. These two races are the worst possible combination ? nasty and dull. It doesn't get any worse.
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It's awfully tough to attack someone who's served and sacrificed as much as she has.
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It should have been a blow-away. It wasn't just any congressional race ? it was a race during Bush's summer of sorrow and it came in a state that was ground zero for '04 and possibly will be for '08.
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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.