Agence France-Presse talked with UVA political professor Larry Sabato, director of the school’s Center for Politics and author of Sabato’s Crystal Ball which, like most forecasters, had predicted a Clinton victory. Many pollsters weight their samples based on the electorate as it was composed in prior election contests, according to Sabato. That proved their undoing, because polls simply underestimated the number of quiet, poll-avoiding Trump supporters out there.
“Barack Obama is well on his way to becoming the most harmful to his sub-presidential party of all modern chief executives,” UVA politics guru Larry Sabato wrote that December [2014].
As UVA’s Larry Sabato, the Obama era cost Democrats 11 governorships, 13 U.S. Senate seats, 69 House seats and 913 legislative seats(!).
As part of The Medical Center Hour at the UVA School of Medicine, dozens attended a discussion about the future of health care reform following Tuesday's election.
Third place went to the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business.
Several media outlets have already shared their rankings of the top universities and colleges in the United States. However, some question whether a school’s quality of education can actually be quantifiable. It was previously reported that University of California-Berkeley is deemed as the best public national university in the United States. University of California-Los Angeles and the University of Virginia both came in second place on the list.
Kelsey Johnson, a UVA astrophysicist, asked about 400 sixth-grade girls from Southwest Virginia Monday to draw a picture of a scientist. Johnson showed the girls a slide with about a dozen pictures of male scientists. “If your drawing looks like this, scribble it out,” she said. “Draw another scientist. Draw yourself doing science. Your drawing of you doing science is going to be awesome.”
The 29th Annual Virginia Film Festival drew a larger audience than ever before.
Health care professionals in Central Virginia are already discussing the impact Donald Trump’s presidency could have on the Affordable Care Act.
(By Emily Temple, 2016 M.F.A. alumna) Literature has been proven to enhance our abilities for empathy, and empathy is what this country needs. We need many, many, other things, of course. But empathy would be a good start. To that end, find below a collection of some early responses from our literary thinkers.
"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.