In Which I Complain About Larry Sabato

So I am listening to the Diane Rehm show, and Larry Sabato is talking, because this is what he does. Talk. Well I mean really he is some director of some election or public policy thing at the University of Virginia.

And he is a hack. Like in here are the two things he says:

1. He very often is 98% accurate in his election predictions!

(Author's note: You will achieve a similarly accurate result if you just pick the incumbent to win. [Political] science!)

2. He will ooze on the teevee and call the race for you if you give him a big pile of money. Thanks to John Cook at Gawker

(Author's note: Jesus Christ is this guy rich)

So to sum up: Larry Sabato will make blindingly obvious remarks and will say what you want him to say for cash.

But to what he is saying now! This is more or less a live-blog.

- Virginia is a state that sometimes picks Democrats and sometimes picks Republicans.

- We can't extrapolate too much from these races.

- People don't have the same turnout for off-year elections!

God he sucks. He just said a bunch of things that you know from having a half functional brain.