Larry Sabato with the UVA Center for Politics offered some early insight. In a tweet, he wrote, “Pence starts with a full-throated defense of his boss on COVID. Only the Trump base will buy it.”
Professor Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, joined CBSN to preview Wednesday’s vice presidential debate.
Stepfamilies are an intricate and intimate arrangement, as any member can tell you. But in politics, thrusting these relationships into the spotlight is standard practice, says Jennifer Lawless, a politics professor at the University of Virginia.
There are 64 different combinations of the most competitive battleground states and the Maine and Nebraska districts that would produce 269-269. In each of those scenarios, of course, flipping Nebraska’s 2nd District from one candidate to the other would produce a 270-268 winner. “There are some very real possibilities where NE-2 and the ME-2 district could impact the race for president,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the UVA Center for Politics.
More than an hour in, a black housefly sat for several minutes on Pence’s white hair, hanging on as he shook his head and parried with Harris over race and criminal justice. “Three debaters are now on the stage: Harris, Pence, and a very political fly that has nested in the Veep’s head,” Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics, wrote on Twitter.
In a vice-presidential debate so civil and calm that an insect briefly took center stage, what moments actually mattered? Seventeen experts weigh in. Jennifer Lawless, UVA professor of politics whose research focuses on political ambition, campaigns and elections, and media and politics: The most revealing moment of the vice-presidential debate came before the candidates uttered a word. The minute the plexiglass went up, Covid took center stage.
Kyle Kondik of the UVA Center for Politics said stimulus could have helped Trump in the last month before the election but wondered that with so many other events in the news cycle, “and so little that seems to really move the numbers, that I question whether the actual act of ending negotiations on stimulus moves the needle much.”
During the 1990s, Republican governors were viewed as more pragmatic than the party’s more ideological congressional wing, led back then by Newt Gingrich. “The GOP came to the fork in the road and rejected the one their governors had taken and marched enthusiastically down the lane of ideology,” said Larry Sabato, who directs UVA’s Center for Politics. “Some of these governors are (politically) homeless, and they’ve decided to endorse Biden because they see him as far more pragmatic and moderate than Trump.”
Those who take to the streets by themselves can face long odds when it comes to making a difference. “If they’re not willing to engage with the public, if they’re not willing to speak to journalists or sort of articulate their message, then it kind of ends then and there,” says Kevin Gaines, Julian Bond Professor of Civil Rights and Social Justice at the University of Virginia. “It may exist in the memory of people who witness the protest, but it’s really hard to have any kind of discernible impact if there’s no public engagement.”
By late February, though, the virus had already spread to half the states. By focusing only on people with known links to China, the CDC testing strategy "was designed to miss community transmission," Dr. Taison Bell, an infectious-disease specialist and critical-care physician at the University of Virginia, said in the film.
“This is material that will be unfamiliar to anyone,” said the curator of the Gibbes Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, “Charleston Collects: Devotion and Fantasy, Witchcraft and the World’s End,” Lawrence Goedde. A professor at the University of Virginia, Goedde specializes in Northern Renaissance art, work that often prominently features religious subjects.
In this futuristic world of money run by machines, Lana Swartz, assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia said access won't be a problem. It is more about how the terms of access are defined. “Machine learning will decide if identities in many forms are transactable,” she said. For example, can my fridge order my milk, and what basket of currencies will it use? “Machines [not humans] will be making most of those decisions,” says Swartz.
(Co-written by Dr. Taison Bell, School of Medicine) Academic medicine is beginning to realize that suffering acts of discrimination is par for the course for Black trainees and physicians. Although these acts may be subtle, they are rooted in systemic racism, a powerful force impeding progress.
Wednesday brought with it another sports schedule change for the University of Virginia. This time, women’s soccer joined the list of Olympic sports impacted by COVID-19 and injuries. It’s been a week of postponements and cancellations for the Cavaliers, but the programs are still navigating competition amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The UVA Medical Center hosted a Zoom webinar Wednesday on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. It's part of the UVA's Pandemic Perspectives series throughout the fall semester. The panelists explored the scientific promise and challenges of fast-tracked vaccine development and ethical debates about equitable vaccine allocation.
UVA Health will open its new Breast Care Center on Monday, after more than five years in the making. The new space will be approximately three times the size of the current facility, offering a streamlined place for patients to visit.
A trio of professors are studying people’s emotional responses to “Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman’s death in late August from colon cancer. Meredith Clark (of the University of Virginia), Jessica Myrick (of Penn State University) and Jessica Fitts Willoughby (of Washington State University) have teamed up on the project.
Questions have swirled about the quarantine process for University of Virginia students since many in the community learned students are being sent off UVA Grounds to isolate during the coronavirus pandemic. The University says the use of off-Grounds housing had been part of its plan since the early summer.
Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr., the older of two surviving grandsons of the 10th president of the United States, John Tyler, and part of a genealogical marvel that in just three generations spanned almost the entire history of the United States, died Sept. 26 in Franklin, Tennessee. He was 95. He was born on Jan. 3, 1925. After graduating from William & Mary, he earned a law degree at the University of Virginia.
UVA Health is getting ready to open a state-of-the-art care center for those battling breast cancer. The UVA Breast Care Center will be a one-stop-shop for all breast imaging, scanning, infusions, lab testing, clinical trials, and more. It will also provide survivorship clinics, supportive care services, and a gift shop that sells items like wigs and head covers for those going through chemotherapy.