Marrying in your mid-20s is best for marital happiness, whereas marrying in your late 20s or early 30s is best for stability, according to a study by American think tank the Urban Institute in 2014. “Waiting somewhat translates into stability,” explains Bradford Wilcox of UVA’s National Marriage Project. “But those who wait longer tend to be less happy, perhaps because they have more baggage from past relationships.”
William Barr’s allies say he simply followed his instincts, honed by his maximalist view of executive power, and was untroubled by perceptions he was serving Trump’s agenda. “Bill Barr will be inexorably tied to Donald Trump,” said political scientist Nancy Baker, who interviewed Barr for an oral history project at UVA’s Miller Center.
The Fox News “award” of Arizona to Biden marked a turning point, and things started to unravel for the incumbent president. “News organisations have no legal authority to do anything that determines the outcome of the election,” professor Herman Mark Schwartz, a UVA political scientist, said. Fox calling Arizona for Biden may have been a political statement. “Fox owner Rupert Murdoch was sending a message from the big-business, boat-owning part of the Republican Party – which doesn’t like Trump’s policy craziness and erratic behaviour – to the voters with lower education, evangelical Christian...
“I think the attitude is ‘I don’t like Trump, but just give me a Republican I can vote for,’” said J. Miles Coleman of the UVA Center for Politics, who has studied Republican defections in Georgia. “I think they’re still loyal to the party to some extent, but I think Trump has put those people more up for grabs.”
One thing helping line voters up is the decision of the candidates in both races to run as tickets, with joint appearances and advertisements. J. Miles Coleman of the UVA Center for Politics said the joint effort has helped Warnock wrap up Democratic voters. “He and Ossoff have done a better job of running as a ticket,” Coleman said. “I think overall that’s going to benefit Warnock and help him consolidate some of his support.”
(Video) More than 2.5 million votes have already been cast in Georgia’s Senate runoff election. The rest of the state’s voters will head to the polls on Jan. 5. J. Miles Coleman, an associate editor for Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics, discusses the tactics being used by the candidates less than a week before election day.
(Commentary) Speaking of presidential elections in Philadelphia, not to be forgotten is this gem of a story from 2012. The headline in Philadelphia Magazine was this: “Mitt Romney Didn’t Get a Single Vote in 59 Philadelphia Voting Divisions.” President Obama, you see, won those 59 precincts 19,000 to zero. That’s right, zero. The magazine quotes Larry Sabato, a well-known UVA political scientist, as saying: “Not a single vote for Romney or even an error? That’s worth looking into.”
Even in the unlikely event that the Senate voted to affirm an objection, it would fail in the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives. Larry Sabato, director UVA’s Center for Politics, said there is “zero chance such a maneuver” from the Republicans would work to block Biden’s victory.
UVA Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato says there are a few factors that could help a Republican carry the governorship in Virginia next year.
(Commentary) Robert F. Bruner, dean emeritus of UVA’s Darden School of Business and a student of presidential leadership, argued that “Eisenhower’s warmth and optimism were instruments of his political influence.” … Theodore Roosevelt, described by UVA political scientist Sidney Milkis as “the first modern president of the United States,” today is criticized for primitive views on race, promiscuous use of executive orders, and an assertive foreign policy that bordered on ethnic chauvinism. But he also was a master of optimism.
In an effort to meet these needs, the Resource Council started a partnership with the UVA School of Nursing. For the last several years, nursing students have come to the Resource Council to help residents and to get some hands-on experience. Vickie Southall, an assistant professor of nursing and a friend of Runnett, said that each semester prior to the onset of COVID-19 her students would offer a range of services, including measuring blood pressure and blood sugar and answering questions about medication.
“Alan is constantly working on artistic projects that benefit and affect the community that The Bridge PAI serves (essentially, that includes everyone!) and has truly taken The Bridge’s mission of Bridging Diverse Communities Through the Arts to heart,” Travis Thatcher, technical director of Composition & Computer Technologies for the UVA Department of Music, said in an email. “He’s always eager to get involved in any of the programming ideas myself or others would bring up and really throws himself fully into them! Aside from The Bridge-related stuff, he’s also been working on other proje...
Dr. Costi Sifri, a professor of medicine and director of hospital epidemiology and infection prevention and control at the University of Virginia Medical Center, said the health district has been critical to getting testing and other resources into the community and to promote mitigation measures such as hand-washing, wearing of masks and social distancing, the latter two being unpopular at times and challenged by some politicians.
Lysandra Cook, an associate professor and coordinator for UVA’s special education program, said many students won’t meet their individualized education program objectives this school year and will need revised or rewritten IEPs after missing out on critical learning. Cook said the the majority of schools are doing their best to meet their students’ needs, but for students with a more severe disability, things get complicated. The student doesn’t have the same ability to meet with members of their IEP team, Cook said, a challenge in and of itself. “It’s a lot for schools,” Cook said. “They’re b...
Morela Hernandez, Donald and Lauren Morel Associate Professor in Business Administration at UVA’s Darden School of Business and author of “What New Normal Should We Create?”: 2020 has shown us what social psychologists have known for years: that “people are demonstrably undone by too much uncertainty or social invalidation.” Managers in 2021 will have to fight against the ruinous effects of uncertainty and social invalidation by re-creating a shared social understanding – a shared reality that allows people to more accurately assess data and effectively coordinate.
UVA history professor John Edwin Mason published a tweet asking what photojournalism and documentary photography would look like, now and in the past, if the photographer’s right to take someone’s image were balanced by that person’s right to say no.
UVA sociologist James Davison Hunter brought the term “culture war” into the American vernacular with his 1991 book “Culture Wars, The Struggle to Define America.” Executive director of the university’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Hunter has argued that critics should not dismiss skirmishes over culture as being less important from policy issues.
A UVA Health professional recommends a different kind of New Year’s resolution for 2021. Psychologist Kim Penberthy treats patients with a wide variety of mental health issues as well as helping people manage stress, change and grief. She says in some cases, New Year’s resolutions can be more harmful than helpful.
The sense of loss we’ve all felt because of COVID-19 has, according to Bethany Teachman, a professor and the director of clinical training in UVA’s Department of Psychology, left us more than a bit drained. “People are heading into these holidays very depleted,” she said. “Far too many people have lost loved ones or jobs, or are experiencing serious economic stress, so there is considerable grief for millions of people this season. Even for those who have been more fortunate during this time, it has been an extended period of stress and uncertainty, and we are often not together with our famil...
“This election is about as close as you can get,” wrote J. Miles Coleman and Niles Francis in a recent analysis for UVA’s Center for Politics. “It’s hard to tell who has the edge, but undoubtedly, the party that does a better job turning out the base will be the party that carries the day.”