Much has been made in the past of presidential candidates’ campaign theme songs, but there would be no more appropriate choice for this year’s Republican nominee, John McCain, than the Rolling Stones’ classic, “Time Is on My Side.” Political observers, including your Crystal Ball, are virtually unanimous in their assessment that the prevailing conditions this […]
Larry Sabato
The founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, Larry J. Sabato has appeared on national television and radio programs including 60 Minutes, Today, Hardball, and Nightline. A Rhodes Scholar, he received his doctorate in politics from Oxford, and has been at UVA since 1978. The author of countless articles and some twenty books, most recently The Sixth Year Itch: The Rise and Fall of George W. Bush's Presidency, he co-anchored the BBC's coverage of the 2006 election. In 2002, the University of Virginia gave him its highest honor, the Thomas Jefferson Award. Dr. Sabato is also regularly updating "Sabato's Crystal Ball," a critically acclaimed election analysis website which recorded the most accurate election predictions in the country in 2006, correctly predicting every contest for the U.S. Senate, all but one gubernatorial race, and a net party change of 29 seats in the U.S. House.
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Reshuffling House: Can McCain Stop Dems?
Last December, when we first sketched out the upcoming House elections, we suggested that Democrats were likely to have a good year. Nothing has changed our forecast in the six months since, and if anything, we now see November 2008 as probably the best year Democrats have had in many a moon. Only a solid […]
How Obama Did It
Shortly before ten o’clock on the evening February 1, 2008, Barack Obama’s chartered 737 took off from Albuquerque International Airport bound for Boise, Idaho, where the Illinois senator was scheduled to hold a rally the next day.
In just four days voters in twenty-two states would award 1,681 Democratic National Convention delegates, of which Idaho’s […]
Can Obama Turn Lemons Into Lemonade?
OBAMA’S NEXT CHALLENGE:
Turning Primary Losses Into Electoral Votes
By Rhodes Cook
Senior Columnist
As Barack Obama prepares to move from the primary to the general election phase of the 2008 presidential election, he faces a new challenge which combines both - to bring many of the states where he suffered primary losses this winter and spring into the […]
VEEPS? Romney for McCain; Webb for Obama
MCCAIN’S VICE-PRESIDENT?
Mitt Romney as running mate
Kathryn Jean Lopez
Special Guest Columnist
For Mitt Romney, the suspension of his campaign at the Conservative Political Action Committee conference two days after Super Tuesday marked the beginning of a new and promising campaign. As he ended his quest for the Republican presidential nomination, he staked for himself a position as […]