"People would say back in 1988 … ‘We wish we could vote for him [Reagan] for the third term,’ " Barbara Perry, director of UVA’s Miller Center presidential studies program, said. "I’ve heard that about Obama. I do think it’s partly that Americans are beginning already to be nostalgic about the presidents when they’re leaving office … and by comparison to the people running."
The atmosphere at the University of Virginia is a far cry from the centre of Detroit. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. He was also an architect, and designed the stunning campus. Sidney Milkis, a professor at the UVA’s Department of Politics, said the university was known as a “genteel” place.
"Across the nation, Democrats are trying to nationalize their races because they think they can use Trump as a weapon," Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, told Politico in September. "In this race, it's pretty clear Democrats are trying to localize, because Trump is not a drag, but an asset for Cole. This is one of the few places in the country where Republicans are more concerned with nationalizing a race than Democrats are."
If Kaine wins, “Virginia will be at the heart of the action for the next four years,” said Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics. Kaine, said Sabato, would be the “fundraiser-in-chief and patron saint of the Virginia (Democratic) Party.”
“It’s a debacle on the order of Dewey defeats Truman,” Larry Sabato, the UVA political scientist, told CNNMoney, referring to the famously incorrect headline that followed the 1948 presidential election.
"In history, 'third' consecutive White House terms are tough to get. Hillary Clinton proved it again. Trump was also assisted by the FBI director's bombshell 11 days before the election. His 'never mind' came nine days later but millions had voted in the interim – and the take-back didn't get nearly as much press as the take-down." Larry Sabato, rirector of UVA’s Center for Politics
In August 2015, UVA’s Larry Sabato, a prominent political scientist, co-authored a piece on Donald Trump’s electoral prospects. “If Trump is nominated,” the analysis said, “then everything we think we know about presidential nominations is wrong. History has shown that presidential nominations tend to follow a certain set of ‘rules.’” Of course, we now know that Trump, nine months later, won the Republican nomination, and come January, he’ll be president of the United States. But with Sabato’s year-old piece in mind, it’s worth ...
Gov. Chris Christie gambled his political future on Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and what seemed like the longest of long-shot bets has paid off. "Surely he'll get a Cabinet appointment. Don't know which one. Look at what's come out about Trump. Would he really penalize Christie for his (Bridgegate) scandal?" Larry Sabato, Director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, appeared on "Fox & Friends" this morning to explain how pollsters' predictions – which overwhelmingly favored Clinton – were so wrong.
Khizr Khan and his wife, Ghazala, emerged onto the political stage during the Democratic National Convention in July when Khizr told the story of their son, Captain Humayun Khan, a UVA graduate, who served in the United States Army and was killed in a suicide attack in Iraq on June 8, 2004. On Nov. 1, Khan visited UVA to talk with the Miller Center’s Doug Blackmon.
Before the vote, UVA President Teresa Sullivan, appealed to students to be civil to one another after the vote. She taught them about the bitter election of 1800, when a pro-John Adams newspaper warned that Thomas Jefferson would create a nation in which “murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will openly be taught and practiced.” Jefferson won and set about trying to get people to “unite with one heart and one mind,” to restore “that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things …”
"Instead of having our presidential election decided by the national popular vote, regardless of state, instead we have a system where each state gets a certain number of electoral votes based on its representation in Congress," said Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics. According to Skelley, the Electoral College cements Virginia's status as a swing state and key battleground in presidential elections.
Despite having established a career in publishing, being awarded a Pulitzer Prize and serving as poet laureate of Virginia, as well as of the United States, Rita Dove, UVA’s Commonwealth Professor of English, has never been nominated for a National Book Award. Until now.
UVA’s Women's Center and School of Law are teaming up with a law firm to give veterans an extra hand.
With a bowl game that had long been a remote possibility now a mathematical impossibility, one might wonder what’s at stake for 2-7 Virginia over its final three games. Center Jackson Matteo is glad you asked. For Matteo, a fifth-year senior, the stakes are nothing less than continuing to lay the foundation of a program that can thrive long after he and the other seniors are gone. It’s a process that, this season, anyway, is about more than wins, he said Monday. Virginia hosts Miami on Saturday.
The founder of UVA’s Center for Politics says a weekend reversal by FBI Director James Comey might help presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. UVA’s Larry Sabato says many Democrats are still upset. That’s because millions of voters cast ballots between Oct. 29 and Sunday.
Hillary Clinton will win the presidency with more than 300 electoral votes, and the Senate will be tied at 50-50 between Republicans and Democrats, according to Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball final projections ahead of Tuesday's vote.
Kyle Kondik, of UVA’s Center for Politics, said that it is hard to tell what sort of long-term impact Trump will have until the final results are in.
“Kaine was mayor of Richmond, knows the city intimately, and no doubt will draw upon its people and programs” if he wins, said Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics.
With Election Day comes one of the oldest traditions in American politics: The Electoral College. Without the Electoral College, there would be no such things as purple states, like Virginia. "Instead of having our presidential election decided by the national popular vote, regardless of state, instead we have a system where each state gets a certain number of electoral votes based on its representation in Congress," said Geoffrey Skelley from the UVA Center for Politics.