On CNN, Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia sounded very pessimistic about what's ahead. He predicted minor compromises and little legislation in the next two years.
"You know the Republicans obviously had a really good midterm, but they are not going to be in a position to dictate policy because of course President Obama has a say, too, and they do not have veto-proof majorities in either the Senate or the House," said Kyle Kondik, who is with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
"Whether she wants to be or not, any Republican presidential nominee for president in 2016 will have her on the shortlist for vice president. The GOP can't afford to have a double-white male ticket in this increasingly diverse country, and Martinez would allow potentially for greater appeal to women and Hispanics," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
"We've had a very difficult economy for years and anyone in office is going to be held partly accountable, especially governors," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "They're not called 'little presidents' for nothing."
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said Boehner can revel in the glow of Tuesday's electoral gains, and they will strengthen his hand in the next Congress."I'm not saying there won't be noise and complaints and whining," Sabato said. But Boehner will be on firm ground "no matter what kind of rebellion the Tea Party Caucus cooks up."
The lack of messaging on the improved economy is also because economic indicators don't always translate into voters' minds, Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said. "People don't feel the recovery and they are still worried about the economy," Sabato said. "A candidate who in essence says you haven't had it so good -- even if backed up by the facts -- seems out of touch." Economic gains are also a hard sell for the president's party in a midterm election, he added.
“An African-American congresswoman is solid gold for the Republicans,” says Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Centre for Politics. “They have enduring, deep problems with both minorities and women across the country, so I guarantee you they will feature Mia Love prominently.”
“It’s a Republican-leaning year, and it’s a good national trend for Republicans that is bleeding down the ballot to governors’ races,” said Kyle Kondik, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “Fox & Friends,” University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato offered a reaction to the disparity between last night’s midterm election outcomes in Virginia, Georgia and Illinois to what the polls had suggested. According to Sabato, such a difference between the polling a reality warranted an investigation.“I want an investigation of the polls in Virginia,” he said. “They were completely wrong, just as they were in Georgia. They were also way off in Illinois. And I could go on and on. Boy, is that an industry ...
Analysts at the University of Virginia Center for Politics say they thought Warner was a very safe bet to win re-election. ... "It's looked like they had it won, comfortably enough that no one was really counting on it as one of the key races to watch on election night," stated Geoff Skelley of the UVA Center for Politics. “It's amazing because Gillespie's campaign didn't get the outside help that I think a lot of people thought he needed to be able to win, and yet here he is in this position."Bob Gibson, the head of UVA's Sorensen Institute for Politic...
Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, ran an aggressive campaign to tie Warner to Obama, saying Warner had voted for Obama's agenda 97 percent of the time. That undercut Warner's reputation in the state as an independent and a moderate. "He really was hurt by the ads saying he voted with Obama," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
By Judge Glock, a Miller Center Fellow at the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. candidate in history at Rutgers University.On Oct. 20 federal regulators eased credit requirements on new mortgage loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will buy. This shows that the Obama administration believes these two lumbering giants—still operating under federal conservatorship—should continue to play an essential role in the housing market.Yet government guarantees, implicit or explicit, are a bad idea with a checkered past. Consider the Federal Land Banks, created in 1916 during the Woodrow Wi...
... The incoming president said he also will look for ways to work more with the University of Virginia Medical Center. “We share space in the same community, so looking at how we can collaborate and serve the community is a great opportunity,” he said.
The University of Virginia Department of Systems and Information Engineering developed the initial prototypes for demonstration under research sponsorship from the Defense Department and the Commonwealth Research Commercialization Fund.
The financing provides MSi the means to commercialize technology and intellectual property licensed from the University of Virginia’s Licensing and Ventures Group, and prototypes developed out of the University of Virginia’s Department of Systems and Information Engineering. ... System-Aware Cybersecurity has shown great success in early stage demonstrations in autonomous vehicle cyber attack and protection scenarios and protections of intelligence gathering and exploitation systems.
Carroll, along with Balázs Kovács, from University of Lugano, Switzerland, and David W. Lehman from the University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, chose the dining domain to examine the link between authenticity and consumers’ value ratings.... When Carroll and his cohorts crunched the data, they confirmed that even when controlling for quality, restaurants regularly referred to in consumer reviews as authentic received higher ratings on average, often by a half star or more. They also found that family-owned and independent restaurants received higher consumer value ratings than chains...
Urban Legend: A penny dropped from the Empire State Building will kill a personReality: FALSEProfessor Louis Bloomfield of the University of Virginia wanted to prove this, but because the myth is so embedded in our brains, no building would let him. Instead, from hundreds of feet up, he dropped a small helium balloon tied to a penny dispenser that would spit out the pennies on the way down. Although he didn’t catch a single penny, he was hit in the face. The result? “It was like getting hit by a bug … it was noticeable, but nothing more.”
The great economist Gordon Tullock, who contributed greatly to the intellectual zeitgeist of libertarianism thanks to his role, along with Nobel Prize-winning economist James Buchanan, in developing the "public choice" school of economics, has died at age 92, his colleagues are reporting on Twitter. ... Tullock was, among other accomplishments, the intellectual father of the concept of rent-seeking ...The Buchanan/Tullock public choice approach also came to be known as the “Virginia School” of political economy because of Buchanan’s formative years teaching at the U...
In her book “Managing Challenges in Multicultural Teams,” Kristin J. Behfar, an associate professor at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, identified four main challenges faced by multicultural teams: ...