Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Summer Wind in American Politics

Domestic Events Overshadowed by Foreign Terror Acts

August 4th, 2005

Larry J. Sabato, Director, U.Va. Center for Politics

“The summer wind came blowin’ in from across the sea,” as Frank Sinatra famously sang, and clearly the single most significant political development of Summer 2005 has come from abroad. No, not Iraq–there has been no change there in the dismal story of well intentioned plans gone awry, thanks to a vicious, never-ending insurgency. [...]