Larry Sabato Next Quotations

Maybe they've said if this doesn't work out for Norman, you get the next shot.

He learned that you have to play ball. You have to serve the caucus and the leadership. And one of the primary ways to do that is to raise money for the caucus and help members who are politically in danger at the next election.

It does cause problems for successors. Then the next person feels obligated to do the same thing.

This is a big election, about big things -- war and peace, the economy and all the rest. Real events over the next few months will have an impact.

The Congress reads the polls; they know that the president is not where he was once and they're on the ballot next November.

It's very likely that Virginia will eventually adopt the two-term governorship. But it won't be in the next few years, as far as I can tell.