Another election-forecast team at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics broke down all of these races in a recent online briefing.
The president has shown little interest in expanding his appeal beyond that base, and his campaign has been working on a strategy of finding more such voters. “For his entire term, Trump has made very few attempts to reach out and broaden his coalition,” said Larry J. Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “He has been trying to expand the Trump base that casts ballots, and they could substitute for the diminishing group of blue-collar whites.”
Pennsylvania’s vote counting could go on for days. Democrats in the state recently won a victory in the U.S. Supreme Court to allow officials to accept mail-in ballots up to three days after the election as long as they are postmarked by Nov. 3. “Something I’m prepared for on election night is for Pennsylvania to look more Republican than it may actually be, whoever ends up winning the state,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
As a political junkie, with less than two weeks until Election Day, I'm at DEFCON 1 when it comes to data about early voting, polls, what the candidates had for a midday snack, etc. There are three mostly nonpartisan analysts that have my attention these days: Kyle Kondik with Sabato's Crystal Ball out of the University of Virginia.
(Video) As the conversation continues about the safety of voting by mail, a machine and cybersecurity expert at the University of Virginia discusses how safe our in-person voting process is.
Otavio Freire has extensive experience in company strategy and engineering for cyber and risk-based scalable platforms, including social media applications, internet commerce and information technology serving the pharmaceutical, financial services, high-tech and government verticals. He has a BS in Civil Engineering, an MS in Management Information Systems and an MBA from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where he currently serves as a visiting executive lecturer.
The Tom Tom Foundation’s Cities Rising Summit hosted a panel discussion focused on how data and technology play a role in the fight for equity. Wednesday evening’s panel was titled “Data for Social Good in Charlottesville.” State Del. Sally Hudson led the discussion, featuring panelists from the University of Virginia and the non-profit group Code for Charlottesville.
Some pro-Barrett witnesses argued against the notion that her conservative worldview or Roman Catholic faith would make her rule according to one political party’s preferences. University of Virginia law professor Saikrishna Prakash in his statement said that both political parties should expect Barrett’s rulings to disappoint them at times: “She will reach results that some of us will criticize, maybe even disdain. We have seen this before, and we will see it again.”
The Diplomat and the US-China Perception Monitor recently had a joint interview on the topic of U.S.-China relations with Professor Harry Harding of the University of Virginia. Harding is a specialist on Asia and U.S.-Asian relations. His major publications include Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1966; China’s Second Revolution: Reform after Mao; A Fragile Relationship: the United States and China since 1972; and the chapter on the Cultural Revolution in the Cambridge History of China. Below are Harding’s thoughts on the idea of a new Cold War – what he calls the “Cold War 2...
Another potentially effective strategy is to try cutting the interrupter out of the conversation, denying them the attention they desire. This is something that Biden did occasionally during the first debate, by turning toward the camera and addressing viewers directly. “The full shift in body position, eye position, tone, etc., really excluded Trump from the conversation,” said Jim Detert, a professor at UVA’s Darden School of Business who studies workplace communication. He’d recommend more of this.
(Video) The 33rd Annual Virginia Film Festival is underway, but many changes had to be made due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Wednesday was opening night of the 2020 Virginia Film Festival, which kicked off with a drive-in movie at the Morven Farm in southern Albemarle County.
The Charlottesville Area Community Foundation has announced 124 recipients of the Community Recovery and Catalyst Grant Program. CACF says this is the third phase of its COVID-19 response following the emergency helpline and the Rapid Response grants. This year, the organization combined the funding it had for four independent grant programs with Bama Works of Dave Matthews Band, the University of Virginia Health System, Twice is Nice, and Enriching Communities.
(Free registration required) A class of drugs long used to treat HIV and hepatitis B viral infections appears to prevent the development of diabetes in a substantial proportion of patients who take these agents, an analysis of multiple databases has shown. "Nucleoside reverse-transcriptase inhibitors, drugs approved to treat HIV-1 and hepatitis B infections, also block inflammasome activation," Dr. Jayakrishna Ambati of the University of Virginia School of Medicine and colleagues write in their article, published recently in Nature Communications.
A new study by Elizabeth Mollard at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Amaya Wittmaack from the University of Virginia School of Medicine published on the preprint server medRxiv* in October 2020 reveals that pregnant women may feel less supported during their childbirth experience due to the changes in maternity unit practices related to the pandemic.
A model by the University of Virginia predicts that cases will continue to rise and will peak by Thanksgiving. Based on the model, Virginia could exceed 200,000 coronavirus cases by Nov. 26.
No one who planted the 50 trees at the Blandy Experimental Farm on Wednesday will be around in a century, but they hope the trees will still be standing tall. The planting in an approximately 200-yard long, 100-yard wide pasture in the community forest is part of ongoing climate change reduction and nature preservation efforts at the 700-acre farm off John Mosby Highway (U.S. 50) in Clarke County. Blandy is a research field station affiliated with the University of Virginia's Department of Environmental Sciences and the State Arboretum of Virginia.
After a difficult year, the MBA job market is finally bouncing back. But what does the future hold for MBA candidates and business schools? TopMBA spoke with Jeff McNish, Assistant Dean of the Career Development Center at The University of Virginia Darden School of Business to find out more.
It seeks to be a memory device for gatherings and assemblies, and it is the result of a group project, the new memorial with which the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson, confronts its unjust past.
Though a UVA model now projects a potential new peak in Virginia COVID-19 cases in November, a top state health official says it’s too soon to tell whether an uptick in cases over the past few weeks is indicative of a bigger trend.