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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.

Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, has released his final electoral college ratings and predicts Hillary Clinton will win the election.

As Election Day begins, some are asking what would happen if Trump loses and declines to concede. "There is no legal requirement for the loser to concede," says Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.

(Commentary by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) After a nearly two-year campaign – kicked off in December 2014 by Jeb Bush (remember him?) – we’ve come to it at last. Election Day is less than 24 hours away. And we know why you’re here: You just want the picks.

The Ringling's Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Matthew McLendon will be joining the Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia as its director and chief curator starting this coming January.

UVA announced Monday that Matthew McLendon, the curator of modern and contemporary art at The Ringling, has been appointed director and chief curator of The Fralin Museum of Art.

A new resource at UVA is giving scholars a chance to step into another world. At the Visualization Laboratory, or Viz Lab, a number of high-tech resources are available to help researchers, including a new virtual reality system.

Four local education leaders participated Monday in a panel discussion on the future of education in Charlottesville at the UVA. The panel, hosted by the UVA Student Council, featured two local public school superintendents, UVA President Teresa A. Sullivan and Piedmont Virginia Community College President Frank Friedman.

The University of Virginia field hockey team defeated archrival North Carolina 4-2 on Sunday to win the 2016 ACC championship. It’s the first league title for a Cavalier field hockey team in the school’s history.

Some others saw a much tougher side. “Look, there’s no question that she was smart, she was dedicated, she understood the issues and people were intimated by her,” former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta says in “Inside the Clinton White House,” a newly published oral history of the administration by Russell Riley of UVA’s Miller Center. “There were several meetings where she basically walked in and let everybody have it, very different from what the president would do. If she thought something was going wrong, she’d say it. She was much m...

Professor Sidney Milkis is based at the University of Virginia, which is in a swing state that both candidates desperately want to win. He said that tensions were higher than he had ever known in his 37 years at the institution.

American politics won’t get any sunnier after the polls close Tuesday, as the new president will face an even bigger challenge than getting elected – governing a polarized country and dealing with a gridlocked Congress. Presidential historian Barbara Ann Perry compares the task facing either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to the one Abraham Lincoln confronted in 1860 as the nation lurched toward civil war. “That’s the last time the country has experienced a time when it was ungovernable,” said Perry, director of presidential studies and co-chair of the Presidenti...

As Dr. Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center, told The Straits Times: "It's like trying to put toothpaste back into the tube. At best she (Mrs. Clinton) can hope that, if she still continues to lose votes over the issue, this exoneration would stop the bleeding."

The shifting demographics have reshaped the presidential map and taken some of the shine off Ohio’s status as a bellwether in presidential elections: The state has picked the president in every election since going against John F. Kennedy in 1960. “Ohio is both A) historically a little more Republican than the nation and B) demographically friendly to Trump because it’s whiter than the nation, and its white electorate has a slightly lower education level than the white electorate nationally,” said Kyle Kondik of UVA’s Center for Politics and author of “The B...

Jesuit Fr. Gerald Fogarty, who teaches religious studies and history at UVA, also said Francis’ earlier selection of Tobin as a new cardinal shows that the pope “is trying to moderate the extreme division within the [U.S.] hierarchy.”

Student volunteers from UVA’s Darden School of Business are building a better community, providing a makeover to Virginia's oldest preschool and a camp for children with special needs.

"Ballot initiatives often are leading indicators of trends, especially on social issues," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center of Politics. "The ultimate trend-setter is California, partly because it is a mega-state that has so many ballot issues every year."

(Commentary) The $112 million partnership to bring a UVA School of Medicine campus to the Inova health care complex in Fairfax is an important addition to an emerging industry in the greater Washington region.