@LarrySabato
Link to Website FOLLOWERS: 145.9K
Larry Sabato
2 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 3:51pm
@ncpack2010 Be grateful each day that you're on the right side of the dirt.
Larry Sabato
2 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 3:42pm
@TimesClimate We thought they'd never end.
Larry Sabato
2 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 3:42pm
Even in '60s heyday, space program never commanded high public support b/c of its costs.. Approval usually well under 50%. Days after dazzling Apollo 11, Gallup asked about sending men to Mars. 53-39% OPPOSED funding. Will #MoonLanding50 increase backing for Moon/Mars missions??
Larry Sabato
6 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 11:31am
@Pete_Finnegan Garbage in, garbage out.
Larry Sabato
6 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 11:26am
Nation Apparently Believed in Science at Some Point https://t.co/SIyoqXurbW
Larry Sabato
6 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 11:20am
How many Americans think (very wrongly) that the Moon landing was staged? We un-Earth-ed 2 polls--from 1995 (TIME/CNN) & 1999 (Gallup). Both found 6% said it was faked. Small % but millions of adults. Many elections are decided by 1% or less. It all makes sense to me now.#MoonDay
Larry Sabato
7 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 10:41am
Because he reads the right books, I hereby endorse Matthew Modine for SAG-AFTRA President. That should put him over the top! #VoteModine #ArtistsUnited https://t.co/VIBErGERzI
Larry Sabato
7 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 10:27am
Record Early Attention to 2020 Election by Both Ds & Rs. Plus, Democrats’ Ratings of Party’s 2020 Field: Better Than in 2016, Similar to 2008 (from @pewtrusts). https://t.co/kToI0yifW1
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 4:07pm
@thorsenchair @BorowitzReport I've posted hundreds of pieces from Borowitz and The Onion over the years. I often add [Satire] but it gets tiresome because I have a higher opinion of most Twitter folks than that.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 3:40pm
@Brian_C_Broadus @W4JTP @mountainembrace Apollo 13 rekindled interest, at least for a while.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 3:32pm
White Supremacists Warn Idealistic Trump Some Compromise Will Be Necessary To Achieve Their Goals (Satire) https://t.co/pkYZ6EfR9n
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 2:47pm
JFK ('61): "Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.” https://t.co/9CZkHoAO6G
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 2:43pm
2. Their unmanned Luna 15 was launched 3 days before Apollo 11 & supposed to fly back to Earth with soil samples but crashed into the moon instead. https://t.co/0xRE2G3e7i
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 2:35pm
1. JFK ('61): "Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets...we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first..." In fact, the Soviets tried to step on America’s triumphant moon mission.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 12:53pm
@thorsenchair No! Really?
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 12:52pm
@zshirwac1 @MalcolmNance Satire. All Borowitz columns are.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 12:51pm
@Roach1Ga Subscribe! It's a great magazine.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 11:55am
Trump Denies Being at North Carolina Rally https://t.co/cXGoMMFWeF
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 9:04pm
@BrooksDSimpson I'm so sick of Jan's whining.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 9:03pm
@JodeanTownsend @CNNPolitics It was the luck of the draw--whether you consider it good luck or bad luck.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:53pm
@joebovino @CNN Mmm...cheese. An appeal to Wisconsin voters.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:52pm
@CNNPolitics has as many anchors and pundits analyzing a simple debate placement draw as there are presidential candidates. When there's a blur of pundits, I always think of "Hollywood Squares". Or maybe "The Brady Bunch", with several Marsha's.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:45pm
@stephenrhymer @CNN Every time they pick a candidate, drink. Have two drinks when they pick a candidate you don't like.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:40pm
Now the @CNN pundits are vigorously punditing about what the POSSIBLE match-ups mean right before they pick them. Just do it! Truly, right now, I'm chuckling. (Old professors never lol--chuckle is all that's left.)
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:37pm
@AngryRichRadio @CNNPolitics @wolfblitzer I now love you.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:37pm
@ArmyofNaveed @CNNPolitics @wolfblitzer Or poorly designed--and the rules were set by the DNC.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:34pm
@AngryRichRadio @CNNPolitics @wolfblitzer Rich, I can tell you're angry, but you're not on the radio.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:28pm
Here's how this could have been simplified by @CNNPolitics: @wolfblitzer could have picked all the slots out of a hat in the privacy of his own office. Impossible to imagine Wolf cheating. He's been spotted walking old ladies across busy streets even when they didn't want to go.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:20pm
@LeeStrohbehn @CNN I've admitted I have no life for decades.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:14pm
@slothce @CNN Too late. 0% in the polls and 0 contributors. So I'm close, but no cigar.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:11pm
I love transparency, but @CNN, this is a lot of bells and whistles for a simple lottery to determine which D candidates appear on stage July 30 vs July 31. And I've never seen a lottery without at least $1 million prize. What's in it for the rest of us? Where's my ticket?
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 5:04pm
@Cdbrow1 Congrats. That's a completely new theory of 11/22/63. Wrong, of course, but so are dozens of others.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 4:50pm
Less than three weeks after assassination, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson renewed “Kennedy proposal for a joint U.S. – USSR lunar project”. Soviets respond they are working on the problems involved in a moon flight "quietly, without a lot of hullabaloo.” https://t.co/crH021n6M3
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 4:46pm
Recall that by Sept. 1963 JFK was second-guessing the Apollo program b/c of cost involved in sending a man to the moon. At a UN meeting he offered an alternative: A joint U.S./Soviet expedition to the moon. The idea was cut short by the assassination. https://t.co/VHu8XdW7VI
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 1:28pm
@drewbiondo Many others thought as you did. JFK's preference for Mars over the Moon is little known.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 1:25pm
@DonKeehotey He's partly right. The sun will come between the Earth and the Moon when it expands into a red giant and extinguishes whatever life is left (if any) on Earth. I'm sure POTUS knew this--he's a fount of knowledge.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 1:11pm
@drewbiondo No, it's Mars. Please watch the clip.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:51pm
I'm all for voting convenience but not at the cost of security. So many devious hackers--foreign & domestic--want to disrupt our elections. Beware. https://t.co/tF5wwTlHsq via @pewtrusts
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:42pm
@tkbva No apology needed! Almost no one knows about JFK's preference for Mars over the Moon. That's why I tweeted it.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:38pm
@tkbva Nope. MARS. Watch the clip.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:28pm
"Love It or Leave It" has a long and disreputable role in U.S. history. Those of you shouting the slogan today are associating yourselves with this. And if that fact doesn't bother you, you're beyond help. https://t.co/uVwoeiixxA
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:13pm
RT @hughhewitt: "Send her back" is a nativist, terrible chant. Also electoral suicide. There're more than 400,000 naturalized residents in PA, w/ 200,000 more in Michigan. @realdonaldTrump won PA by and MI by 11K, PA by 44K. #VoteHerOut --fine. #SendHerBack --nativist. Catholics, btw, remember.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 11:40am
@ChristianHeiens It will happen in the next couple of decades. We must go to Mars, because after we complete our ruin of Earth, humans will need another planet to destroy.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 11:36am
@ChristianHeiens Yep. Watch the clip! Kennedy wanted Mars not the Moon until NASA convinced him it wasn't possible given the technology of the time.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 11:33am
America Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Landing Man on Mars. Still today it sounds like science fiction. It was an even further reach in the early 1960s when JFK initially suggested sending astronauts to the Red Planet instead of the moon. NASA had to explain it wasn't possible. https://t.co/c9DtWaG0Ld
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 11:29am
RT @FactTank: Redistricting outlook for 2020: State-by-state assessments - from @LarrySabato https://t.co/nodf9lIeUH
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 5:31pm
@MorisKlaw @TheOnion It may take a century.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 3:30pm
@armandodkos Prior to the name reverting in 1973, I'm sure the locals--who wanted the old name back--did the research to convince the FL legislature to do as they wished. As for 1963, they didn't have time to do anything. Less than a week after 11/22/63, the Cape had a new name.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 3:26pm
@edubrew @TheOnion Dogs and cats living together...
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:45pm
According to archives, both calls were made on 11/27/63. Note only 13 minutes separated start of call to Sen Holland (5:13PM) where LBJ says no study done of history of Cape Canaveral name, to the 5:26PM start of call w/ Gov Bryant where LBJ says he's studying it "a little bit."
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:39pm
@SendStephen Florida or Russia? ;)
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:39pm
@ozarkspider Yes, for those who knew him. LBJ had been Senate Majority Leader and was known not just to senators but governors and many others by his first name. In public they would have said 'Mr. President'. And LBJ had been in office just a few days.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:30pm
Of the name change, LBJ tells FL Gov. Bryant: “I'm studying historical background...a little bit," but doesn't think he'll "run into any trouble". In fact, it proved to be unpopular in FL. State legislature restored the Cape Canaveral name in May, 1973. https://t.co/AUFHSgeB3K
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:18pm
Nov. 27, 1963 FL Sen. Spessard Holland issued a diplomatic & insightful caution to LBJ about renaming Cape Canaveral as "Cape Kennedy". Spessard: "What study has been made of the historic name." LBJ: "None...We'll check it" LBJ announced name change the following day on TV. https://t.co/H2abjKtOhn
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 12:46pm
Less than a week before he was assassinated, President Kennedy made his third visit to Cape Canaveral on Saturday, November 16, 1963. He spent two hours participating in briefings and viewed a Polaris launch. https://t.co/qeyev4hGZC https://t.co/t0Li5J4xH1
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 12:03pm
Moon Receives Standing Ovation At Apollo 11 Anniversary Event https://t.co/ZUxiWlcY8g via @theonion
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 11:33am
@3dogbenjamin @TheOnion I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 11:24am
Finally, some progress. Next: Statue removal before 22nd century.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 11:22am
Virginia Agrees To Remove Confederate Ghosts From State Capitol https://t.co/0qX16Rhw2q via @theonion
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 11:09am
@postandcourier Note that Sanford has given himself 30 days to decide. Note also the Republican Party should just go ahead and re-name itself the Trump Party. Thus, Sanford will have to live off the land--as well as cable TV & social media--if he runs. He can trade insult for insult with Trump.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 11:04am
Mark Sanford, SC Republican, former US Rep, considers presidential run against Trump https://t.co/jvDnvmcxma via @postandcourier
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 8:29am
@cmarmc Inspiration tops my list.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 8:28am
@GPollowitz @jack Agree. We used to call them ombudsmen but public editor says it better—and social media needs public editors far more than newspapers ever did.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 8:14am
Apollo 11, launched 50 years ago today, brought out the very best in America and Americans. What bothers me most about Donald Trump is that he brings out the worst in us—and seems to enjoy it.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 10:26pm
@JamesAbrenio @pewtrusts Exactly. Should be. Must be.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:46pm
Opinion | George Conway: Trump is a racist president https://t.co/fn4rTZR3Zm
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:21pm
Twitter says Trump’s tweet didn’t violate its rules against racism but won’t say why. TWITTER HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO. https://t.co/YnlRM9tDEe
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 4:24pm
It went well beyond ticks. One day the full story will be told. https://t.co/50oJx3QmUG via @RollCall
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 1:09pm
@ILPollster The public turned strongly against the Vietnam War. I didn't mention Nixon.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 1:00pm
Trump's doubling down on his racist statements live on TV this minute. He just urged all people who don't like it here in the USA to "leave". I'm reminded of the bumper sticker 50 years ago: "AMERICA--LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT". Designed to suppress anti-Vietnam War sentiment. Failed.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 12:54pm
@Hettinger_Tech The interpretation is up to each reader. I label it "satire" because it was written for that purpose.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 12:52pm
@ScottCharton @PresHarryTruman @rkoreis @TrumanLibrary Doubtful. Trump cannot be embarrassed or shamed. That much is obvious to everyone.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 12:45pm
Trump Supporters Worried Racist Attacks Against Progressive Democrats Just Talk (SATIRE @TheOnion) https://t.co/pe2eY5cORD
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 12:07pm
Only 12 states require Holocaust education in schools. ALL should require it. Here's a positive way to fight white nationalism and neo-Nazis. https://t.co/zNdXELTkND via @pewtrusts
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 10:40am
@barbarikon Somehow I doubt that, but be sure to read the NYTimes column on turnout I just RT'd.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 10:36am
Huge Turnout Is Expected in 2020. So Which Party Would Benefit? https://t.co/lMYUcABbLl
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:18am
@akorengold Your alternative theory took only one tweet, with plenty of characters left over.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:16am
@MichaelCalifra Let's see it happen in a presidential year. Then I'll believe.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:13am
@Myday2 We don't disagree on that. But the nominee matters, and that midterm coalition cannot necessarily be transferred to a presidential election. We'll see.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:11am
@sacdamb And the white evangelicals most dedicated to Trump are hard-core, not the soft non-church going ones as some believe.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:09am
@SyncPol Yes, Wallace's strength was almost purely sectional (though notice he got a slew of votes in certain non-Southern states where Trump scored his breakthroughs).
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 8:58am
3/Trump's plan can be frustrated in several ways. Ex: Dem 2020 turnout could be through the roof to oust Trump. Yet as I said, dividing is easy and it can work--though history never honors the dividers. As if Trump cares! Holding power is all that matters in the here and now.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 8:54am
2/Key for Trump is goosing rural & non-college white turnout. He’ll never need a majority or even a plurality of total vote. His Electoral College path is clear. Even if he energizes minorities as much as whites, Trump still gains more overall votes.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 8:51am
1/ Dividing is easy. Uniting is hard. Either can win an election but Trump much prefers the easy way. Trump calculus is simple. 70% of electorate is white, Trump wants to get 57-59% of that. Trump is stuck at about 22-23% of all non-whites combined (30% of total electorate).
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 3:48am
@ScottCharton @PresHarryTruman @TrumanLibrary Is there any President more opposite to Trump than Truman? Maybe a few but not many.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 3:43am
@Les_Worse @IAmKrishanPatel Took a lot of work
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 3:43am
@IAmKrishanPatel I hope they’re different. If they’re not, then @kkondik switched the manuscripts.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 9:15pm
@rickreiman @IlhanMN @MalindaMichell1 @RonRosenbaum1 They like the comforts of their job and want to keep it. Not a whole lot more complicated.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 8:54pm
@TBoisseauATX Best of luck to her (and you) in the journey.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 8:53pm
@rickreiman @IlhanMN @MalindaMichell1 @RonRosenbaum1 When? The 12th of Never.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 8:41pm
@TBoisseauATX And it's as true now--more true?--than ever, in the US and around the world.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 11:34am
@Pete_Finnegan @NBCNews Patience.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 11:00am
@LeftOfMainSt @NBCNews Very true--and good luck with that one! Dems are already doing what Dems do best: Fighting viciously among themselves. Of course Rs did the same in 2016, but there is something in the GOP's genetic code that reunifies them in the end.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:52am
@81_eagles Rural turnout can grow too. Trump gets 62% there, and by some measures they are more pro-Trump now than even in 2016.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:50am
@szorowitz @NBCNews Maybe. But we don't know who they are yet. We don't know how devious people in and out of the USA will help them if it aids their party nominee.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:47am
@Jason_Woodfin @scottmac1955 Just the oft-played game of whataboutism. Pure deflection.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:44am
@NBCNews Worth emphasizing that Trump's deep unpopularity in gargantuan CA (& other Blue states) could stretch D lead in popular vote beyond Hillary's 2%--without producing 270 EVs for D. Not a prediction, just a possibility.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:41am
What has changed since 2016? Not much, really. Trump would probably end up around 45-46%. The identity of the D nominee could add or subtract 1-2% to Hillary's 48%. Winning also depends on strength of minor candidates & GOTV in party bases. https://t.co/Ic5ySSUiAY via @nbcnews
Larry Sabato
1 week ago: Saturday Jul 13 - 12:54pm
Trump Furious That Mar-a-Lago Is Left with No Employees After ICE Raid | The New Yorker(SATIRE) https://t.co/CfMdNKFph8
Larry Sabato
1 week ago: Friday Jul 12 - 7:53pm
From the Governor's Proclamation: "Nathan Bedford Forrest is a recognized military figure in American history." So is Benedict Arnold. https://t.co/57pMKpdODB
2 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 3:51pm
@ncpack2010 Be grateful each day that you're on the right side of the dirt.
Larry Sabato
2 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 3:42pm
@TimesClimate We thought they'd never end.
Larry Sabato
2 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 3:42pm
Even in '60s heyday, space program never commanded high public support b/c of its costs.. Approval usually well under 50%. Days after dazzling Apollo 11, Gallup asked about sending men to Mars. 53-39% OPPOSED funding. Will #MoonLanding50 increase backing for Moon/Mars missions??
Larry Sabato
6 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 11:31am
@Pete_Finnegan Garbage in, garbage out.
Larry Sabato
6 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 11:26am
Nation Apparently Believed in Science at Some Point https://t.co/SIyoqXurbW
Larry Sabato
6 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 11:20am
How many Americans think (very wrongly) that the Moon landing was staged? We un-Earth-ed 2 polls--from 1995 (TIME/CNN) & 1999 (Gallup). Both found 6% said it was faked. Small % but millions of adults. Many elections are decided by 1% or less. It all makes sense to me now.#MoonDay
Larry Sabato
7 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 10:41am
Because he reads the right books, I hereby endorse Matthew Modine for SAG-AFTRA President. That should put him over the top! #VoteModine #ArtistsUnited https://t.co/VIBErGERzI
Larry Sabato
7 hours ago: Saturday Jul 20 - 10:27am
Record Early Attention to 2020 Election by Both Ds & Rs. Plus, Democrats’ Ratings of Party’s 2020 Field: Better Than in 2016, Similar to 2008 (from @pewtrusts). https://t.co/kToI0yifW1
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 4:07pm
@thorsenchair @BorowitzReport I've posted hundreds of pieces from Borowitz and The Onion over the years. I often add [Satire] but it gets tiresome because I have a higher opinion of most Twitter folks than that.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 3:40pm
@Brian_C_Broadus @W4JTP @mountainembrace Apollo 13 rekindled interest, at least for a while.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 3:32pm
White Supremacists Warn Idealistic Trump Some Compromise Will Be Necessary To Achieve Their Goals (Satire) https://t.co/pkYZ6EfR9n
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 2:47pm
JFK ('61): "Space is open to us now; and our eagerness to share its meaning is not governed by the efforts of others. We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.” https://t.co/9CZkHoAO6G
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 2:43pm
2. Their unmanned Luna 15 was launched 3 days before Apollo 11 & supposed to fly back to Earth with soil samples but crashed into the moon instead. https://t.co/0xRE2G3e7i
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 2:35pm
1. JFK ('61): "Recognizing the head start obtained by the Soviets...we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first..." In fact, the Soviets tried to step on America’s triumphant moon mission.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 12:53pm
@thorsenchair No! Really?
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 12:52pm
@zshirwac1 @MalcolmNance Satire. All Borowitz columns are.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 12:51pm
@Roach1Ga Subscribe! It's a great magazine.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Friday Jul 19 - 11:55am
Trump Denies Being at North Carolina Rally https://t.co/cXGoMMFWeF
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 9:04pm
@BrooksDSimpson I'm so sick of Jan's whining.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 9:03pm
@JodeanTownsend @CNNPolitics It was the luck of the draw--whether you consider it good luck or bad luck.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:53pm
@joebovino @CNN Mmm...cheese. An appeal to Wisconsin voters.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:52pm
@CNNPolitics has as many anchors and pundits analyzing a simple debate placement draw as there are presidential candidates. When there's a blur of pundits, I always think of "Hollywood Squares". Or maybe "The Brady Bunch", with several Marsha's.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:45pm
@stephenrhymer @CNN Every time they pick a candidate, drink. Have two drinks when they pick a candidate you don't like.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:40pm
Now the @CNN pundits are vigorously punditing about what the POSSIBLE match-ups mean right before they pick them. Just do it! Truly, right now, I'm chuckling. (Old professors never lol--chuckle is all that's left.)
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:37pm
@AngryRichRadio @CNNPolitics @wolfblitzer I now love you.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:37pm
@ArmyofNaveed @CNNPolitics @wolfblitzer Or poorly designed--and the rules were set by the DNC.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:34pm
@AngryRichRadio @CNNPolitics @wolfblitzer Rich, I can tell you're angry, but you're not on the radio.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:28pm
Here's how this could have been simplified by @CNNPolitics: @wolfblitzer could have picked all the slots out of a hat in the privacy of his own office. Impossible to imagine Wolf cheating. He's been spotted walking old ladies across busy streets even when they didn't want to go.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:20pm
@LeeStrohbehn @CNN I've admitted I have no life for decades.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:14pm
@slothce @CNN Too late. 0% in the polls and 0 contributors. So I'm close, but no cigar.
Larry Sabato
1 day ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 8:11pm
I love transparency, but @CNN, this is a lot of bells and whistles for a simple lottery to determine which D candidates appear on stage July 30 vs July 31. And I've never seen a lottery without at least $1 million prize. What's in it for the rest of us? Where's my ticket?
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 5:04pm
@Cdbrow1 Congrats. That's a completely new theory of 11/22/63. Wrong, of course, but so are dozens of others.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 4:50pm
Less than three weeks after assassination, Ambassador Adlai Stevenson renewed “Kennedy proposal for a joint U.S. – USSR lunar project”. Soviets respond they are working on the problems involved in a moon flight "quietly, without a lot of hullabaloo.” https://t.co/crH021n6M3
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 4:46pm
Recall that by Sept. 1963 JFK was second-guessing the Apollo program b/c of cost involved in sending a man to the moon. At a UN meeting he offered an alternative: A joint U.S./Soviet expedition to the moon. The idea was cut short by the assassination. https://t.co/VHu8XdW7VI
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 1:28pm
@drewbiondo Many others thought as you did. JFK's preference for Mars over the Moon is little known.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 1:25pm
@DonKeehotey He's partly right. The sun will come between the Earth and the Moon when it expands into a red giant and extinguishes whatever life is left (if any) on Earth. I'm sure POTUS knew this--he's a fount of knowledge.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 1:11pm
@drewbiondo No, it's Mars. Please watch the clip.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:51pm
I'm all for voting convenience but not at the cost of security. So many devious hackers--foreign & domestic--want to disrupt our elections. Beware. https://t.co/tF5wwTlHsq via @pewtrusts
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:42pm
@tkbva No apology needed! Almost no one knows about JFK's preference for Mars over the Moon. That's why I tweeted it.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:38pm
@tkbva Nope. MARS. Watch the clip.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:28pm
"Love It or Leave It" has a long and disreputable role in U.S. history. Those of you shouting the slogan today are associating yourselves with this. And if that fact doesn't bother you, you're beyond help. https://t.co/uVwoeiixxA
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 12:13pm
RT @hughhewitt: "Send her back" is a nativist, terrible chant. Also electoral suicide. There're more than 400,000 naturalized residents in PA, w/ 200,000 more in Michigan. @realdonaldTrump won PA by and MI by 11K, PA by 44K. #VoteHerOut --fine. #SendHerBack --nativist. Catholics, btw, remember.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 11:40am
@ChristianHeiens It will happen in the next couple of decades. We must go to Mars, because after we complete our ruin of Earth, humans will need another planet to destroy.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 11:36am
@ChristianHeiens Yep. Watch the clip! Kennedy wanted Mars not the Moon until NASA convinced him it wasn't possible given the technology of the time.
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 11:33am
America Celebrates 50th Anniversary of Landing Man on Mars. Still today it sounds like science fiction. It was an even further reach in the early 1960s when JFK initially suggested sending astronauts to the Red Planet instead of the moon. NASA had to explain it wasn't possible. https://t.co/c9DtWaG0Ld
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
2 days ago: Thursday Jul 18 - 11:29am
RT @FactTank: Redistricting outlook for 2020: State-by-state assessments - from @LarrySabato https://t.co/nodf9lIeUH
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 5:31pm
@MorisKlaw @TheOnion It may take a century.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 3:30pm
@armandodkos Prior to the name reverting in 1973, I'm sure the locals--who wanted the old name back--did the research to convince the FL legislature to do as they wished. As for 1963, they didn't have time to do anything. Less than a week after 11/22/63, the Cape had a new name.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 3:26pm
@edubrew @TheOnion Dogs and cats living together...
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:45pm
According to archives, both calls were made on 11/27/63. Note only 13 minutes separated start of call to Sen Holland (5:13PM) where LBJ says no study done of history of Cape Canaveral name, to the 5:26PM start of call w/ Gov Bryant where LBJ says he's studying it "a little bit."
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:39pm
@SendStephen Florida or Russia? ;)
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:39pm
@ozarkspider Yes, for those who knew him. LBJ had been Senate Majority Leader and was known not just to senators but governors and many others by his first name. In public they would have said 'Mr. President'. And LBJ had been in office just a few days.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:30pm
Of the name change, LBJ tells FL Gov. Bryant: “I'm studying historical background...a little bit," but doesn't think he'll "run into any trouble". In fact, it proved to be unpopular in FL. State legislature restored the Cape Canaveral name in May, 1973. https://t.co/AUFHSgeB3K
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 2:18pm
Nov. 27, 1963 FL Sen. Spessard Holland issued a diplomatic & insightful caution to LBJ about renaming Cape Canaveral as "Cape Kennedy". Spessard: "What study has been made of the historic name." LBJ: "None...We'll check it" LBJ announced name change the following day on TV. https://t.co/H2abjKtOhn
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 12:46pm
Less than a week before he was assassinated, President Kennedy made his third visit to Cape Canaveral on Saturday, November 16, 1963. He spent two hours participating in briefings and viewed a Polaris launch. https://t.co/qeyev4hGZC https://t.co/t0Li5J4xH1
Link to Image
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 12:03pm
Moon Receives Standing Ovation At Apollo 11 Anniversary Event https://t.co/ZUxiWlcY8g via @theonion
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 11:33am
@3dogbenjamin @TheOnion I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 11:24am
Finally, some progress. Next: Statue removal before 22nd century.
Larry Sabato
3 days ago: Wednesday Jul 17 - 11:22am
Virginia Agrees To Remove Confederate Ghosts From State Capitol https://t.co/0qX16Rhw2q via @theonion
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 11:09am
@postandcourier Note that Sanford has given himself 30 days to decide. Note also the Republican Party should just go ahead and re-name itself the Trump Party. Thus, Sanford will have to live off the land--as well as cable TV & social media--if he runs. He can trade insult for insult with Trump.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 11:04am
Mark Sanford, SC Republican, former US Rep, considers presidential run against Trump https://t.co/jvDnvmcxma via @postandcourier
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 8:29am
@cmarmc Inspiration tops my list.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 8:28am
@GPollowitz @jack Agree. We used to call them ombudsmen but public editor says it better—and social media needs public editors far more than newspapers ever did.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Tuesday Jul 16 - 8:14am
Apollo 11, launched 50 years ago today, brought out the very best in America and Americans. What bothers me most about Donald Trump is that he brings out the worst in us—and seems to enjoy it.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 10:26pm
@JamesAbrenio @pewtrusts Exactly. Should be. Must be.
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:46pm
Opinion | George Conway: Trump is a racist president https://t.co/fn4rTZR3Zm
Larry Sabato
4 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:21pm
Twitter says Trump’s tweet didn’t violate its rules against racism but won’t say why. TWITTER HAS SOME EXPLAINING TO DO. https://t.co/YnlRM9tDEe
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 4:24pm
It went well beyond ticks. One day the full story will be told. https://t.co/50oJx3QmUG via @RollCall
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 1:09pm
@ILPollster The public turned strongly against the Vietnam War. I didn't mention Nixon.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 1:00pm
Trump's doubling down on his racist statements live on TV this minute. He just urged all people who don't like it here in the USA to "leave". I'm reminded of the bumper sticker 50 years ago: "AMERICA--LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT". Designed to suppress anti-Vietnam War sentiment. Failed.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 12:54pm
@Hettinger_Tech The interpretation is up to each reader. I label it "satire" because it was written for that purpose.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 12:52pm
@ScottCharton @PresHarryTruman @rkoreis @TrumanLibrary Doubtful. Trump cannot be embarrassed or shamed. That much is obvious to everyone.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 12:45pm
Trump Supporters Worried Racist Attacks Against Progressive Democrats Just Talk (SATIRE @TheOnion) https://t.co/pe2eY5cORD
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 12:07pm
Only 12 states require Holocaust education in schools. ALL should require it. Here's a positive way to fight white nationalism and neo-Nazis. https://t.co/zNdXELTkND via @pewtrusts
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 10:40am
@barbarikon Somehow I doubt that, but be sure to read the NYTimes column on turnout I just RT'd.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 10:36am
Huge Turnout Is Expected in 2020. So Which Party Would Benefit? https://t.co/lMYUcABbLl
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:18am
@akorengold Your alternative theory took only one tweet, with plenty of characters left over.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:16am
@MichaelCalifra Let's see it happen in a presidential year. Then I'll believe.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:13am
@Myday2 We don't disagree on that. But the nominee matters, and that midterm coalition cannot necessarily be transferred to a presidential election. We'll see.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:11am
@sacdamb And the white evangelicals most dedicated to Trump are hard-core, not the soft non-church going ones as some believe.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 9:09am
@SyncPol Yes, Wallace's strength was almost purely sectional (though notice he got a slew of votes in certain non-Southern states where Trump scored his breakthroughs).
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 8:58am
3/Trump's plan can be frustrated in several ways. Ex: Dem 2020 turnout could be through the roof to oust Trump. Yet as I said, dividing is easy and it can work--though history never honors the dividers. As if Trump cares! Holding power is all that matters in the here and now.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 8:54am
2/Key for Trump is goosing rural & non-college white turnout. He’ll never need a majority or even a plurality of total vote. His Electoral College path is clear. Even if he energizes minorities as much as whites, Trump still gains more overall votes.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 8:51am
1/ Dividing is easy. Uniting is hard. Either can win an election but Trump much prefers the easy way. Trump calculus is simple. 70% of electorate is white, Trump wants to get 57-59% of that. Trump is stuck at about 22-23% of all non-whites combined (30% of total electorate).
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 3:48am
@ScottCharton @PresHarryTruman @TrumanLibrary Is there any President more opposite to Trump than Truman? Maybe a few but not many.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 3:43am
@Les_Worse @IAmKrishanPatel Took a lot of work
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Monday Jul 15 - 3:43am
@IAmKrishanPatel I hope they’re different. If they’re not, then @kkondik switched the manuscripts.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 9:15pm
@rickreiman @IlhanMN @MalindaMichell1 @RonRosenbaum1 They like the comforts of their job and want to keep it. Not a whole lot more complicated.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 8:54pm
@TBoisseauATX Best of luck to her (and you) in the journey.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 8:53pm
@rickreiman @IlhanMN @MalindaMichell1 @RonRosenbaum1 When? The 12th of Never.
Larry Sabato
5 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 8:41pm
@TBoisseauATX And it's as true now--more true?--than ever, in the US and around the world.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 11:34am
@Pete_Finnegan @NBCNews Patience.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 11:00am
@LeftOfMainSt @NBCNews Very true--and good luck with that one! Dems are already doing what Dems do best: Fighting viciously among themselves. Of course Rs did the same in 2016, but there is something in the GOP's genetic code that reunifies them in the end.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:52am
@81_eagles Rural turnout can grow too. Trump gets 62% there, and by some measures they are more pro-Trump now than even in 2016.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:50am
@szorowitz @NBCNews Maybe. But we don't know who they are yet. We don't know how devious people in and out of the USA will help them if it aids their party nominee.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:47am
@Jason_Woodfin @scottmac1955 Just the oft-played game of whataboutism. Pure deflection.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:44am
@NBCNews Worth emphasizing that Trump's deep unpopularity in gargantuan CA (& other Blue states) could stretch D lead in popular vote beyond Hillary's 2%--without producing 270 EVs for D. Not a prediction, just a possibility.
Larry Sabato
6 days ago: Sunday Jul 14 - 10:41am
What has changed since 2016? Not much, really. Trump would probably end up around 45-46%. The identity of the D nominee could add or subtract 1-2% to Hillary's 48%. Winning also depends on strength of minor candidates & GOTV in party bases. https://t.co/Ic5ySSUiAY via @nbcnews
Larry Sabato
1 week ago: Saturday Jul 13 - 12:54pm
Trump Furious That Mar-a-Lago Is Left with No Employees After ICE Raid | The New Yorker(SATIRE) https://t.co/CfMdNKFph8
Larry Sabato
1 week ago: Friday Jul 12 - 7:53pm
From the Governor's Proclamation: "Nathan Bedford Forrest is a recognized military figure in American history." So is Benedict Arnold. https://t.co/57pMKpdODB