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DURHAM D

(32,609 posts)
1. If you thought Larry Sabato was anything other than a snake
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:43 PM
Aug 2012

you weren't around watching tv during the Clinton years. He was one of the biggest flamers for impeachment and was the obvious official (but secret) mouthpiece for Louis Freeh and David Bosse (Cong. Dan Burton's "investigator&quot . Sabato was/is absolutely disgusting.

The Magistrate

(95,246 posts)
2. Hear Hear, Sir! My Memory Is Long For People Involved In The '98 Coup....
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 01:46 PM
Aug 2012

"Speak of it never; think of it always."

"Romney loves America like a tick loves a dog."

unblock

(52,199 posts)
5. his statistical analyses have always shown a right-wing bias.
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 02:13 PM
Aug 2012

not quite as bad as rasmussen, but still noticeable.

but i've often said that sabato's bias seems to be roughly in line with the right-wing's vote counting fraud, so his final results are still worth paying attention to.

but definitely look out when he talks away from the data.

Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
6. I thought his book on constitutional reform "A More Perfect Constitution"
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 02:15 PM
Aug 2012

was thought provoking and insightful. Too bad he's a jack-wagon.

TlalocW

(15,381 posts)
7. In the 1980s when I started reading the newspaper daily in middle school
Thu Aug 9, 2012, 03:26 PM
Aug 2012

I always wanted to write him and ask him, "I see your name a lot in political stories. Who are you, and why do the media come to you so often?"

I wish I had.

TlalocW

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