Join The Farm Team for the winter statewide meeting – Politics Is A Good Thing

Greetings!
We hope you will join us on Wednesday, January 6th in Charlottesville at The Boars Head Inn for our Statewide meeting and post-election briefing by Dr. Larry Sabato.

The full agenda can be found in the bar to the left of this note.

If you joined The Farm Team last year, THANK YOU!

For a small $25 annual fee, you are entitled to attendance at the statewide meeting and invitations to other events and trainings around the state as well as briefings on women candidates all over Virginia.

Renew your membership or join now to reserve your space at this important meeting.

Click here to renew your membership or join for the first time, and pay for your luncheon buffet, $25.

You are also welcome to send your check to The Farm Team to PO Box 8892, Richmond, VA 23225. Please indicate whether you plan on attending the Charlottesville meeting at that time. Add $25 to cover the lunch buffet as well.

Please RSVP before December 31st to guarantee your spot. Upon payment, you will receive a confirmation email for your attendance and any updated information you may need.

If you have any questions, please feel free to respond to this email and we will get back with you as soon as possible.

Best wishes for a happy holiday season and we look forward to seeing you in Charlottesville in the new year.

If you have any additional questions, please contact Susan Platt at 202-255-3455.

Dr. Larry Sabato

“Politics is a good thing!” … is the slogan of Dr. Larry J. Sabato. According to the Wall Street Journal, Dr. Sabato is “probably the most quoted college professor in the land” and his Crystal Ball electoral analysis is the nation’s most accurate. In July 2008, Dr. Sabato correctly projected that Barack Obama would win the Presidency in a near-landslide. He predicted a 364-174 margin in the Electoral College, just one vote away from the final tally of 365-173, as well as the correct popular vote percentages. He also accurately predicted 99% of Senate, House, and Governor winners-by far the best showing in the business.

His spectacular record of predicting elections is not new. In 2006, for example, he was named the most accurate prognosticator by an unusual combination of news organizations: FOX News, MSNBC, CNBC, and Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

At home both in the classroom and the television studio, Dr. Sabato bridges the gap between the ivory tower and the real world of politics. The author of over 20 books and countless essays on politics, Dr. Sabato has taught more than 14,000 students in his career at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and the University of Virginia. He has received every major teaching award at the University of Virginia, and in 2001 he was named the Thomas Jefferson Award winner, U.Va’s highest honor that has been given to one person each year since the 1950s. Dr. Sabato is the University Professor of Politics and director of the U.Va. Center for Politics (www.centerforpolitics.org), founded in 1998 to improve civic education and the political process.

Dr. Sabato’s latest book is The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House(Longman, April 2009).