"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.
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.