Larry Sabato Predicts Obama Victory

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Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics and author of the political website “Sabato’s Crystal Ball,” submitted his final prediction for the 2012 presidential election on Monday.

The verdict? Sabato anticipates a second term for Obama, giving the president the edge in the majority of the swing states and asserting that the incumbent drew an eleventh hour political windfall from Superstorm Sandy:

With a slight, unexpected lift provided by Hurricane Sandy, Mother Nature’s October surprise, President Barack Obama appears poised to win his second term tomorrow. Our final Electoral College projection has the president winning the key swing states of Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio and Wisconsin and topping Mitt Romney, with 290 electoral votes.

This has been a roller-coaster campaign, though very tight ever since Romney dramatically outshone Obama in the first debate in Denver on Oct. 3. Yet for a challenger to defeat an incumbent, the fates must be with the challenger again and again. Who could have imagined that a Frankenstorm would act as a circuit-breaker on the Republican’s campaign, blowing Romney off center stage for three critical days in the campaign’s last week, while enabling Obama to dominate as presidential comforter-in-chief, assisted by his new bipartisan best friend, Gov. Chris Christie (R)?

 

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