(Commentary) Larry Sabato, head of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, said Youngkin “could be positioning himself for a presidential run in 2024. If so, he needs to talk to Doug Wilder, who called his mid-term presidential run in 1991 the biggest mistake he made. Youngkin would have to run full-time beginning late this year or early next year. He just got elected to his first political office. Not a wise move.” He could run for vice president in 2024 but, while that would be less risky, “Virginia voters probably still won’t like it, and a GOP ticket in this state is still an und...
At simply 43, DeSantis is already thought-about a potential successor to Trump as chief of the Republican Party. Trump and DeSantis’ keynote addresses at CPAC come amid studies of a rift between the pair, with DeSantis conspicuously refraining from promising to face apart if the previous president runs once more in 2024. Professor Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, stated the convention provided potential Republican candidates a possibility to faucet into Trump’s base. “What normally happens at CPAC is other candidates, like DeSantis, will say ‘isn’t Donald Trump the greatest...
Barbara Perry, the director of presidential studies at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center said it is true that modern polarization, particularly on the political right, has sharply diminished chances of achieving a consistent view of the economy today. This, together with structural flaws - such as partisan gerrymandering, the high costs of campaigning to gain traction and social media silos - has dramatically worsened the division in Washington. This almost uniquely makes it more difficult for Biden to tout any of his economic achievements to win voters in 2022 and possibly 2024. ...
“I just don’t think that Trump’s endorsement is, you know, is the be-all and end-all of the race,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics. “It’s still a suburban kind of scene there. I’m sure that Trump is well-liked among the Republican electorate there, but there’s probably Trumpier primary electorates around the country.”
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a political handicapper at the University of Virginia, cited “a collision of important circumstances” creating fierce headwinds for Democrats, not least the redistricting process that, like a game of musical chairs, has left some lawmakers without their old districts — and pushed them into retirement. “There are a lot of signs that this is not going to be a good year for Democrats,” Kondik said.
“Individual candidates and the races they run do matter, but history tells us the political environment is the most meaningful contributor to the midterm outcome,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the nonpartisan Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia's Michael Holt agrees – "He may have been the most handsome man ever to serve in the White House" – and adds that Pierce had a great personality. "He was probably the most amiable president we've ever had. Even historians who were hostile to him remark about how pleasant and friendly he was."
William Ferraro, a senior associate editor with the University of Virginia’s Washington Papers project said the fake letters were not particularly unusual for their time. Many politicians and writers schemed against each other, and pamphlets were a common format to use when making attacks on opponents. Rumors and innuendo ran rampant.
(Podcast) The University of Virginia professor and author of “Autonorama: The Illusory Promise Of High-Tech Driving” details a decades-long history of autonomous-driving promises and scrutinizes America's car-dependent transportation system.
Doctors at the University of Virginia are encouraging pregnant women to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Dr. Donald Dudley with UVA Health says pregnant women are three to four times more likely to have a stillbirth if they have a COVID-19 infection, among other serious risk factors that can occur during pregnancy or delivery if they are unvaccinated. While Dudley said the hospital has not seen any stillbirths among pregnant women who are being treated for COVID-19 at UVA Medical, he said the hospital has seen many pregnant women on ventilators because they are unvaccinated. Dudley said many o...
COVID-19 cases being treated at the University of Virginia Medical Center are still dropping off. Doctors say many people have immunity to the omicron variant right now, after so many positive cases through the holidays. They’re keeping an eye out on what this means for the future. “Exactly what level of immunity - is it immunity to infection, or is it immunity to serious consequences of infection, hospitalization - that’s going to be not clear and there may be some differences depending on different populations,” Dr. Costi Sifri, a UVA epidemiologist, said Friday.
Mask mandates are lifting around the commonwealth in places like schools and restaurants. While people are now making this choice for themselves, one doctor with the University of Virginia is sharing his advice on moving forward. “We’re not quite in that in that situation where we can just start lifting a lot of restrictions,” Dr. Taison Bell said.
Dr. Taison Bell, a critical care and infectious disease physician at the University of Virginia, said many of his unvaccinated patients had similar feelings and regretted their decisions. When he asked why they weren't vaccinated, they would mostly answer, "I just thought I didn't need to get vaccinated. And there are sighs of regret in how they say it," Bell said. "These are preventable deaths now, by and large. The people that we have in the ICU could have avoided hospitals altogether if they were vaccinated."
(Video and transcript) Dr. Taison Bell, assistant professor of medicine in the divisions of Infectious Disease and Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine at the University of Virginia, joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss vaccine efficacy on omicron, how the U.S. has not reached an endemic, future waves and subvariants, and COVID relief funding from the White House.
(Commentary by Mehr Afshan Farooqi, associate professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures) The first issue of Shabkhoon, dated June 1966, was launched in April. My mother’s moral and financial support had been crucial in the year-long planning for the launch of this independent, highbrow literary journal.
(Commentary by Peter Norton, associate professor of history in the Department of Engineering and Society) Some developers of high-tech driving systems want to collect and monetize data from vehicle occupants. Automakers are already making vehicles that can collect personal data from the people in them, and are working hard to find ways to collect more. This dangerous trend is accelerating.
For the third consecutive day, the University of Virginia women swam the fastest time in history in a relay, and this time, the Cavaliers annihilated the NCAA and U.S. Open records in the 400 medley relay by more than two seconds. They beat the American record by nearly three seconds. The team of Gretchen Walsh, Alexis Wenger, Alex Walsh and Kate Douglass, combined to swim a time of 3:22.34, compared to the previous NCAA and U.S. Open record of 3:24.59 set by NC State at last year’s NCAA Championships. The previous American record (3:25.09) had belonged to a Simone Manuel-led Stanford team sin...
Heading into the last evening of racing at the ACC Championships, the University of Virginia women held the lead after a brilliant week that has included American and NCAA records in the 200 free relay, 200 medley relay and 400 medley relay, but the Cavaliers were only slightly ahead of NC State. However, on the final night, Virginia got three individual victories from Reilly Tiltmann (200 back), Kate Douglass (100 free) and Alex Walsh (200 breast) to open up an advantage over the Wolfpack. Finally, Virginia capped off the meet with a win in the 400 free relay to finish the meet with 1418.5 po...
Although most of De. Sally Hudson’s bills did not survive crossover, she did incorporate a piece of legislation into two others that also seek to address medical debt collection. Prompted by widely condemned debt collection practices until recently utilized by the University of Virginia Medical Center and other state hospitals, Hudson said the combined bill all seeks to end the debt collection processes that included home property liens for many in Central Virginia. “In particular, it’s prohibiting not just public hospitals, but now every hospital in Virginia from engaging in the kind of debt ...
More than 2,000 hospitals have been penalized at least once in the eight years since the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program began. Fifty-five hospitals – including the UVA Medical Center – have been penalized all eight years, according to Kaiser Health News.