Louis Jacobson

I am chief author of the Almanac of American Politics 2026, the eighth edition I have worked on, going back to 2000. I am also chief correspondent with PolitiFact, and I'm a senior columnist with Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia.

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