# Larry Sabato > [!note] Stub — fill out > Minimum-viable page created 2026-09-19 so the vault's many `rating_sabato` references have a person to point at. Expand with: biography, the Center for Politics' founding and funding, *A More Perfect Constitution* and other books, forecasting track record including the 2016 miss, and his role as a broadcast commentator. American political scientist at the **University of Virginia**, where he founded the **UVA Center for Politics** and, in 2002, the election-analysis newsletter **[[Sabato's Crystal Ball]]** — one of the three nonpartisan race-rating operations this vault tracks. He is among the most-quoted forecasters in American political journalism, which is how he enters the vault's records: as the named authority in coverage of 2026 midterm dynamics. In September 2026, asked about [[MAGA Inc]] deploying money into House districts Trump carried by more than ten points, he told Greg Sargent of *The New Republic*: "If those are in danger, then a lot of other seats that are considered similarly safe for Republicans must be on the chopping block." ## See Also - [[Sabato's Crystal Ball]] · [[Cook Political Report]] - [[2026 Midterm Elections]] · [[MAGA Inc]]