Ben Tribbett is best known as the blogger 'Not Larry Sabato,' the No. 1 state-level blog in the country in 2006 and 2007. Before joining New Media Strategies, Tribbett worked as a Virginia political consultant. He was a staffer or adviser to more than half of the campaigns in the last decade to successfully unseat Republican legislative incumbents in Virginia. The Virginian Pilot called Tribbett 'a popular, swami-like figure'; the Charlottesville Weekly called him 'Virginia's newest political star'; the Washington Post's Marc Fisher said he was 'altering the dynamics of state political campaigns'; and in the American Journalism Review, Tribbett was cited as a rare blogger that added 'new information to the mix' for political reporters.