Other scholars have looked at leader attributes such as age, experience and gender and found that they affect how leaders behave in office. In their book on the subject, Michael Horowitz, Allan Stam and Cali Ellis found that in democracies and mixed regimes, older leaders – particularly those over 70, Trump’s age – are more prone to aggression. Traits such as age may interact with core beliefs to affect how leaders make decisions.
One demographic celebrity endorsements may have impacted: Young people. “I don’t believe there is anyone in Hollywood or the entertainment industry who could produce a large number of votes for either Clinton or Trump,” said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Now, maybe some celebrities can get more millennials out to vote, since they lag in turnout.”
Now that Election 2016 has come and gone, the politics of Election 2017 are already moving into place. But will Corey Stewart be able to replicate what Trump accomplished in Virginia on Super Tuesday? Geoff Skelley at UVA’s Center for Politics is skeptical. “Many other people are gong to try to mimic Trump because obviously he’s been successful. But I’m not sure anybody else can actually be Trump. Just because it worked for him doesn’t mean it’s going to work for you."
Twitter likely had a significant impact on the presidential election, and one UVA class has been studying the campaign through social media.
Singer and Trump supporter Pat Boone thinks the Republican’s presidential win is a slap in the face for Hollywood's top stars. And Larry Sabato, director of UVA's Center for Politics, said Trump’s defeat of Clinton proved that Hollywood has no real influence over politics.
(Commentary by Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of UVA’s Center for Politics) Well, what can we say – we blew it.
The 2016 Virginia Film Festival continues to build off the success of previous years and, this year, set yet another record. The festival sold an all-time record high of 32,443 tickets with ticket sales generating $207,076. This year was the seventh consecutive record-breaking year for the event.
Students from all over the country are putting their minds to the test at UVA’s Darden School of Business. Students are in charge of picking a theme, while asking themselves three important questions: What is the company doing? Are they making money? Is it valuable to the marketplace?
The results of Tuesday’s presidential election have some UVA students looking for a safe space. The university’s Student Council has opened the doors of the auditorium in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library to those feeling distraught over the results of the election.
The Accelerated Master’s Program in systems engineering at UVA is a class that runs about a year and helps military veterans and working professionals to learn skills in engineering and business.
A team from UVA won the first-ever Passcode Cup, a digital capture-the-flag challenge co-hosted by Passcode and Cal Poly Pomona. Cyrus Malekpour, Collin Berman, Ellis Tsung and Reid Bixler won the four-hour hacking challenge.
(By Philip Potter, an associate professor of politics and in UVA’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, and Tony Lucadamo, lead policy analyst at UVA’s Miller Center) It’s a good moment to note that presidential transitions are precarious moments for U.S. foreign policy.
Overall, female lawmakers are just as successful as men at getting their bills passed – except when the bills are about issues affecting women, health, education and social welfare, according to the new study of four decades of House bills by a team including UVA’s Craig Volden.
Kaine returns to the Senate arguably a more powerful and nationally known political figure ahead of his re-election campaign in 2018. “Kaine has never lost an election, and technically he didn’t lose this one – Hillary Clinton did,” said Larry Sabato, head of UVA’s Center for Politics.
‘We are trying to puzzle this out. Almost all polls were wrong, national and battleground states. Why?’ said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics, who had predicted Clinton would win with 322 electoral votes.
Larry Sabato, who runs UVA’s Center for Politics, appeared on “Fox and Friends” to humbly acknowledge that his ballyhooed “Sabato’s Crystal Ball” failed him and the public. “That ball is shattered in a thousand pieces,” Mr. Sabato said. “I’ve got to order a new one.”
Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Centre for Politics (and arguably the foremost expert in American elections) predicted Clinton to win 322 Electoral College votes.
“I don’t think that there is anything in historical memory that approaches the kind of surprise that occurred last night with somebody coming into office with as meager a public track record as this person did,” said Russell Riley, chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at UVA’s Miller Center.
In a final projection posted Monday, UVA Professor Larry Sabato predicted an easy win for Clinton with 322 Electoral College votes.
UVA’s “Crystal Ball” has egg all over it. It forecast that Democrat Hillary Clinton would win the White House and her party would regain control of the U.S. Senate in Tuesday’s elections. Geoff Skelley of the UVA Center for Politics says he and the other Crystal Ball forecasters expected fewer Republicans would cast ballots for Trump.