Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, has put out his first electoral map of the 2016 general election. Based on Sabato's opinion that Hillary starts with 190 electoral votes from "safe Democratic" states and another 57 electoral votes from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan, states Sabato classifies as "likely Democratic" states, Trump's path to victory is exceptionally limited.
“Two words best describe what's coming: scorched earth,” said Larry Sabato, UVA professor of politics. “Both candidates have unfavorable ratings so high that the obvious tactic will be to destroy the opponent. Both may succeed, though one has to win – absent a surprising, unifying independent entry.”
Donald Trump says when it comes to picking a vice president, he's going by the playbook – a conventional move that's unexpected for him. That doesn't mean he couldn't seek out someone within the political realm who could be as unexpected and unorthodox as the rest of the billionaire businessman's insurgent campaign, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at UVA’s Miller Center.
The respected Sabato Crystal Ball project at UVA’s Center for Politics offers another perspective. The best estimate offered, as of today, is a projected 347 votes for Hillary Clinton in the Electoral College, with 191 going to Donald Trump.
More than 40 states can already be counted on to vote Democratic or Republican. UVA’s Larry Sabato labels not a single state a “toss-up.” He calls only eight states “leaners” – North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Iowa and New Hampshire.
Recent Virginia polling showed Clinton beating Trump, 44 percent to 35 percent. Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at UVA’’s Center for Politics, said the numbers could shift if the economy worsens and Clinton is seen as the “continuity” candidate tied to Obama, but Trump’s negative favorability ratings with women and Latinos could be tough to overcome.
Political observer Larry Sabato, of UVA’s Center for Politics, said Kasich might make a perfunctory endorsement, then plead that he’s too busy to spend time on politics. “Kasich can be unpredictable. Normally we’d just assume an endorsement of the winner, but Trump is no ordinary nominee. And I suppose Kasich is no ordinary rival. I’d say he would indicate he’s voting for the GOP candidate – then stay very busy through November.”
"Trump got the intense backing of a third of the party, and they carried him through good times and bad," said Larry Sabato, a UVA political science professor. "The slice was overwhelmingly white and middle class, and disproportionately male. This group isn't even a majority of the GOP, much less the nation. But with 17 candidates – or even three – it was enough."
Magnetic-resonance-guided ultrasound thalamotomy in the treatment of essential tremor shows significant benefit in reducing upper-limb tremor and improving functionality on several measures, a new UVA study shows.
UVA students gave away more than $47,000 to local nonprofit organizations this week. Piedmont Virginia Community College’s Great Expectations for Foster Youth, the Haven at First and Market, the Free Health Clinic and the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank formally accepted grants at a ceremony on Monday.
Nationwide, the University of Virginia, Wesleyan and Purdue are among the many that have discontinued yearbooks in recent years. Virginia revived its book, Corks & Curls, last year.
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Week, UVA students are getting some insight on how to sustain the legacy of those that survived the tragedy. The Brody Jewish Center invited Dr. Waitman Beorn, a consultant from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., to give a talk on Wednesday.
Design duo Mollie Burch and Taylor Richardson, both UVA alums, are brightening Atlanta’s style scene with CROSBY by Mollie Burch, a new line of contemporary apparel made just for the ladies.
(Commentary) Last summer, UVA’s Larry Sabato, a prominent political scientist, co-authored a piece on Trump’s electoral prospects. “If Trump is nominated,” the analysis said, “then everything we think we know about presidential nominations is wrong.”
The commonwealth of Virginia has dedicated $4 million in the state budget over the next two years to support the UVA Focused Ultrasound Center, accelerating progress toward new cures, attracting additional funding, and stimulating the economy and jobs.
Bernie Sanders won the Indiana Democratic primary on Tuesday night, giving his campaign a moral boost if not an actual path to the Democratic nomination. "I think there may be a possibility that Clinton could get Sanders out before the end of this process, and winning a state like Indiana may be helpful as she tries to nudge him out," said Kyle Kondik, of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump all but locked up the Republican 2016 nomination Tuesday night after scoring a win in the Indiana primary and knocking out his closest rival. But there's still another GOP hopeful in the race. Ohio Gov. John Kasich's campaign indicated the night of Trump's win that he has no plans to drop out of the race. Larry Sabato, the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Kasich may remain in the battle to "may try to prove." However, he doesn't stand a chance, Sabato said.
Mitochondria are organelles inside human cells, and are responsible for generating the energy that the cells need to conduct their work. David F. Kashatus, from the University of Virginia School of Medicine (Virginia, USA), and colleagues have discovered that many cancers - including nearly all pancreatic cancers – force mitochondria to divide unnaturally, thereby creating an environment that is conducive to tumor growth.
College Choice, a provider of college search, rankings and student resources, has published a ranking of the top fifty online master's degrees in accounting in the United States. The University of Virginia tops the list, followed by the University of Texas at Austin, Notre Dame, the University of Michigan, and New York University, The rankings are based on factors such as cost of attendance, each program's reputation in its field, and return on investment.
Saying "colleges have been treated as sanctuaries of learning where firearms have not been allowed," Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have allowed licensed owners to carry guns on campus in all but a few buildings. Deal also cited another record – one that's nearly 200 years old: the minutes of an Oct. 4, 1824, meeting of the Board of Visitors of the then-newly created University of Virginia. Noting that the attendees at the 1824 meeting included Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Deal writes that the school's rules included this line: "No...