But you knew that already, didn't you?

Here's Dick Morris telling readers that Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's re-election prospects are grim because she has failed to improve her standing among New York voters this year:

Had Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand used her incumbency to good advantage, her victory this fall in the heavily Democratic state of New York would be a foregone conclusion. Instead, she squandered her opportunity -- remaining passive and on the sidelines while the Republicans fought for the right to oppose her.

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Gillibrand remains largely unknown to her constituents. She should have used this spring and summer to tell New Yorkers who she is and what are her plans in the Senate. Instead, she hoarded her funds and chose to say and do nothing.

And here are Kirsten Gillibrand's job approval ratings this year:

So, basically, Morris is just making things up.

Ah, but maybe Dick Morris is so attuned to the nuances of Empire State politics that his hunches outweigh clear trendlines? No. No, he is not:

As Media Matters noted, in columns in The Hill and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and in appearances on Fox News in 2005, Morris repeatedly touted New York Republican Jeanine Pirro's 2006 Senate campaign against Clinton -- asserting, regarding Clinton running for a second Senate term, that, “the first thing I would tell Hillary, if I were advising Hillary, is you're crazy to run for the Senate”; that "[s]he might just take a pass"; and that if Pirro ran, Clinton might drop out of the race. Morris predicted that if Pirro proved to be the strong candidate that he expected her to be, Clinton would drop out. Pirro, however, trailing badly in polls, dropped out of the race on December 21, 2005. Additionally, on the November 6, 2000, edition of The O'Reilly Factor, Morris asserted, about Clinton's first Senate campaign in 2000 against former New York Rep. Rick Lazio: “I think Lazio is, at this point, more likely to win it than Hillary, because, if Hillary is at 48 percent -- or even at 49 percent, or even at 50 percent -- a lot of her vote of minorities, a lot of her -- who have no real reason to vote in the presidential race.” Lazio lost to Clinton by more than 12 percentage points, even though he outspent her by nearly $11 million.