Libertarians in Virginia hold high hopes and a to-do list to achieve them. With Republican Donald Trump showing higher than 61 percent unfavorability ratings, according to a Real Clear Politics poll average, some Republican officials are turning to the Libertarian Party, at least for now. “There’s always been sort of a low-running stream. Now it’s starting to move, not toward flood, but the stream is rising,” said James Lark, a UVA applied mathematics professor and national party rep.
As a result of those two polls and others, the political scientists and pollsters behind UVA’s Sabato's Crystal Ball on Thursday changed its prediction for how Pennsylvania voters will select a president Nov. 8 from "leans Democrat" to "likely Democrat." "While there is some suggestion that Pennsylvania might be slowly trending Republican, and while it has a lot of the white, working-class voters that Donald Trump is targeting, recent polling has suggested that Hillary Clinton is obviously the favorite there right now," wrote Kyle Kondik, managing editor...
An election model that has correctly predicted every presidential race since 1988 is giving Donald Trump a narrow victory in the 2016 election. Alan Abramowitz, the creator of the model, which was done for the highly respected UVA Center for Politics "Crystal Ball," also says that elements of his model may be out of line because of Trump's extraordinary unpopularity.
Could Kansas elect its first Democrat to Congress in six years? Democrats have improved the odds in the state’s 3rd Congressional District, according to political prognosticator Larry Sabato, a political scientist and director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
No matter how far behind he was in the polls, Donald Trump always led in one key area: The economy. Now Hillary Clinton has closed that gap. "It's almost certainly a direct result of a successful, professional, polished convention," said Larry Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics.
If you’ve driven through the UVA campus recently, you may have noticed a mural going up on the side of the Graduate Hotel. It’s a collaboration with the Charlottesville Mural Project, a Philadelphia artist and prize-winning poet Rita Dove.
How much of John F. Kennedy's public persona was privately molded by his wife, Jacqueline? Quite a bit, according to a new documentary, "JFK: Fact and Fable." The film combines archive footage and stills of JFK and his young family with commentary by historian and author Thurston Clarke and Larry Sabato, a Kennedy biographer who directs UVA’s Center for Politics.
UVA political scientist Larry Sabato said, "We had a history of governors and other officials ignoring orders on desegregation or tying them down on appeals. (Holton) obeyed the busing order, and that did result in integration." Sabato said Holton’s political career suffered from his stand. The state "Republican Party wouldn’t have anything to do with him after that," he said.
The U.S. faces a critical shortage of doctors and other health care practitioners willing to make house calls, a new study shows. Nengliang (Aaron) Yao, the study’s lead author and a health-policy professor at the UVA School of Medicine, said, “This is not a new model. This is an old model. In the old days, the doctor went to visit patients’ homes on horseback.”
The so-called reproducibility crisis – a belief that too many scientific studies would crumble if subjected to further scrutiny – has hit the discipline especially hard. Last year Brian Nosek, a UVA professor, made waves by finding that less than 40 percent of psychological studies from 2008 could be reproduced.
New UVA research rethinks our common solutions to the international refugee crisis, which some see as just temporary. Christine Mahoney, an associate professor at UVA, spent five years visiting refugee camps around the world, including Columbia, Uganda, Somalia and Nepal, among others.
Faculty turnover, student mental health and substance abuse issues and health care reform are top priorities for this academic year, UVA officials told the Board of Visitors, gathered Sunday for the first day of a two-day retreat.
Among the proposals before the UVA Board of Visitors are proposed changes to the Ivy Road and Emmet Street interchange, which could bring big changes to the UVA landscape.
Camp Kesem is a national organization dedicated to supporting children whose parents have or are battling cancer. In Central Virginia, it's run by UVA students.
Scott Stadium was filled with happy fans who got the chance to meet the UVA football team on Saturday.
Rather than relying on state funds or tuition dollars, UVA would build the infrastructure and investment portfolio with which to self-fund strategic research. State dollars are now focused on access for all and support for excellent teaching. It is a classic win-win model.
Leah Smith, who [goes] to the University of Virginia, swam alongside Ledecky in her record-breaking 400-meter freestyle race and claimed bronze behind Great Britain's Jazmin Carlin with at time of 4:01.92. She also swam the second leg of Wednesday night's gold-winning 4x200-meter freestyle relay. She'll be back in the pool with Ledecky Friday night for the final 800-meter freestyle race.
“The trend in American politics has not been toward ticket splitting, but Trump may be an unusual candidate who ends up promoting it more,” says Kyle Kondik of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Whether the agency should honor her requests hinges on what accommodations are reasonable under the circumstances, said J.H. “Rip” Verkerke, director of the program for employment and labor law studies at the University of Virginia School of Law.“You have to be willing to put yourself in the position of the employer and ask what imposition it would create for other people in the office to grant the request,” Verkerke said. “The fact that they did this before seems to suggest it was feasible.”
Douglas Laycock, a University of Virginia law professor, was not surprised to learn that the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating whether or not Culpeper County discriminated against a local Muslim congregation when it denied a septic system permit to serve a future mosque site.