Inside Info: Is Larry Sabato a partisan in disguise?

self | 09-27-06 | WL-Law

[WL-law]

Many are questioning whether Larry Sabato's issued, then modified, then somewhat-withdrawn accusations against Sen. Allen amount to Sabato unmasking himself as a democrat partisan, posing as an impartial observer.

I can add one new fact that I have personal knowledge of, one that is somewhat curious, and potentially relevant.

Here it is: the person that Allen referred to as "Macaca", the person who was stalking the Allen campaign, is one of Sabato's students, in Sabato's class at UVA. I don't know whether this fact has been disclosed anywhere.

Hmmmmmmm.............

[Miss Marple]

I think I will ping kcvl, who is much better than I am at searching.

I am going to go see what I can find out.

[Miss Marple]

Here they are, pictured together, as leaders of a seminar on campaign management. Jarding is the one without the beard.

Washington Center for Politics and Journalism, September 2006

[Miss Marple]

Here's Doug Thompson bragging about being an old friend of Steve Jarding.

Doug Thompson's self-important web site

[Miss Marple]

Steve Jardin and Dave "Mudcat" Saunders have co-authored a book:

[Darnright]

>Many are questioning whether Larry Sabato's issued, then modified, then somewhat-withdrawn accusations against Sen. Allen amount to Sabato unmasking himself as a democrat partisan<

"Larry!! Larry?? Come out of the Democrat closet!!!

[Enchante]

"...the person that Allen referred to as "Macaca", the person who was stalking the Allen campaign, is one of Sabato's students, in Sabato's class at UVA. I don't know whether this fact has been disclosed anywhere."

DING DING.... we have a winner..... when will the DBM bother to research Sabato's student, Doug Thompson, Sabato himself...... this sounds like a real "Borking" (or even worse) by the libs.

[Enchante]

[DOUG THOMPSON]: "Each year at this time I make the trek to DC for an appearance at The Washington Center for Politics and Journalism. Terry Michael, who runs the program, is an old friend as is Steve Jarding, an "adjunct lecturer in public policy" for the Kennedy School at Harvard who also ran Mark Warner's successful campaign for governor a few years back. Steve and I have been doing this road show for the center to talk about political campaign management to a group of interns for Washington-based media and news organizations with bureaus in the city."

[CharlesWayneCT]

UNfortunately, I don't know if he was a student before this fall. He got into Larry's class this fall because of the macaca incident.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Not Doug Thompson again. If there a dirty smear campaign, Doug Thompson will be part of it. He's the new Terry Lenzer.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

I'll never forget Sabato and that moron Gene Cox on WWBT during one election (I forget which) where the Republicans were doing well. I thought those two were going to start blubbering on camera!

[OldPossum]

The man is a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. That city voted 72 percent, if my memory is correct, for Kerry, so that should give you some idea of the environment from which Mr. Sabato operates.

[flying Elvis]

Student opinions of Sabato at Ratemyprofessor.com

http://www2.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=39099