host: larry sabato, founder and editor in chief of sabato's crystal ball and center for politics darker at the university of virginia. you can find his work at here on c-span, c-span now, a■/d online at c-span.org. we will get straight to your calls starting with adam in maryland, independent. caller: i wish i would've gotten on with the other guy because i wanted to ask him if you would have been doing the same activities had the supreme court of missouri versus biden course not given an injunction for the government saying company that still go out and talk with the social media companies until we make the decision about whether or not what the g!overent engages in the facts. that is all i wanted to say. host:al in new jersey, a republican. caller: years ago, before martin king came on the scene, we believed in judging people by the color of the skin, not by their character. now it is the opposite. now we have ditched the idea. we have to get back to judging people by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin. we have to judge people by merits, qualities, abili

we are joined by larry sabato, the founder and editor-in-chief of sabato's crystal ball. welcome to the program. guest: thank you so much. host: there's an article in politico with dams -- dems in full-blown free got over biden. a running list of reasons biden could lose. 20 think that? -- what do you think that? guest: if you want a lot of clicks that's exactly the kind of headline and article you want to publish. most of these media organizations want clicks. look. i have been at this long time. people aren't going to believe it but since 1960. i know i am too young looking. one thing i havedemocrats panic. they panic several times every election campaign, whether they are winning or abusing. sometimes it's justified and other times it isn't. in this case it is too early to panic. that does not stop them. i'm not saying republicans never panic. there is something about the nature of the democratic party that causes them to panic. i know the stakes are very high. they are looking at donald trump and sang, not again -- and sang, oh no, ait's true because they e saying it.

host: larry sabato, founder and editor in chief of sabato's crystal ball and center for politics darkera. you can find his work at here on c-span, c-span now, a■/d online at c-span.org. we will get straight to your calls starting with adam in maryland, independent. caller:

we are joined by larry sabato, the founder and editor-in-chief sabato's crystal ball. in politico with dams -- dems in full-blown free got over biden. a running list of reasons biden could lose. 20 think that? -- what do you think that? guest: if you want a lot of clicks that's exactly the kind of headline and article you want to publish. most of these media organizations want clicks. look. i have been at this long time. people aren't going to believe it but since 1960. i know i am too young looking. one thing i have learned is that mocrats panic easily. they panic several times every election campaign, whether they are winning or abusing. sometimes it's justified and other times it isn't. in this case it is too early to panic. that does not stop them. i'm not saying republicans never panic. there is something about the nature of the democratic party that causes them to panic. i know the stakes are very high. they are looking at donald trump and sang, not againng, oh no, not again. it's true because they are saying it. i hear it all the time. you can't repeat the off t

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is there a conspiracy at "the times" about this which -- >> their methodology is bizarre and larry sabato said this and others said this. >> you're saying "the new york times" systematically putting the polls out in a way to amplify them to drive the news circle. >> -- cycle. >> yes, i am saying that. >> i'm curious as someone i understand your level of sophistication reading the media why you think that is true. what i'm trying to say is i agree with you. the best bull work against any polls outliers or anything else for people who are actually consumers of this information is to not let these -- any given news outlet or any given poll shape your perception of the race unduly. >> john, a that is not realistic. and i'll tell you why it's not realistically. i know people come up to after every "the new york times" siena poll comes out. it completely changes the political battlefield out there for about a week, week and a half. it distorts the questions that are asked of the white house. it distorts the questions that are asked of donald trump. it distorts all of the opinion. it distorts ev