Hispanics cannot make or break elections in Arizona as they can in New Mexico or Colorado reckons Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia, but 30% of the state’s 6.5m residents belong to the group (although only 60% of those eligible to vote did so in 2012).
Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, split the difference, saying that the ensuing political fallout will be a battle of the Democratic versus Republican bases. “Instead of Spy vs Spy, it will be Base vs Base,” he explained.
"If he came down to Virginia and pulled the same stunts here -- Virginia likes to think of itself as gentile -- it just wouldn't fly," says Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia and Virginia resident. Sabato is quick to note that Christie's antics, while generally accepted by people in the northeast, isn't an approach that appeals to most voters outside the densely populated, metropolitan region.
The well-known University of Virginia political analyst reported that Gov. Abercrombie’s loss to Sen. Ige is the largest primary loss of any sitting governor in U.S.. History.
Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said Corbett is in “a class by himself” as a trailing incumbent. Incumbents in Illinois, Maine and Kansas trail, Skelley said, but not as much.
After earning their University of Virginia law degrees and a combined 14 years of practicing law, Stephen Glasgow and Matt Watson ditched their scales of justice in the midst of an economic crisis to follow a shared passion of entrepreneurship. They’ve since built the first and only online store dedicated to all preppy fashions with $5.5 million in projected revenue for 2014.
At the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School, what the books say is not as important as how they were made. [5 min. video]
The 40 schools that appear in the 2014 HispanicBusiness Best Schools represent the cream of the crop when it comes to institutions of higher learning with Hispanic postgraduate enrollments. These schools, in the fields of business, engineering, law and medicine, consistently score highest in most if not all five categories that we use in our rankings. [The Darden School of Business ranks No. 7 among best business schools.]
Pitchbook released their 2014 list of top universities for VC-backed entrepreneurs Wednesday morning, which looked at global VC-backed companies that received funding between the dates of January 1, 2009 and August 21, 2014. The ranking compiled with the use of data assessing the number of entrepreneurs, companies and the amount of capital raised at the most prestigious universities producing VC-backed undergrads dubbed three D.C.-area schools among the top 50 institutions that have strong entrepreneurial ties.The University of Virginia, University of Maryland and Georgetown University all ear...
Deloitte Analytics has announced a collaborative agreement with the University of Virginia's McIntire School of Commerce, under which it will serve a three-year term as an advisory board member for the school's Center for Business Analytics.
Bob McDonnell testified he could say no to donors and used University of Virginia Vice Rector William Goodwin Jr. as an example. On the witness stand in his federal corruption trial Tuesday, the former governor told the jury Goodwin sent him a letter in March of 2012, asking him to reappoint his son-in-law, Robert Hardie, to the UVa Board of Visitors.McDonnell testified he rejected the request because he didn't think Hardie's views on higher education were consistent with the direction he wanted the board to move. This nugget is important to McDonnell's defense because Goodwin toed...
A national fraternity organization this week finalized three presidential committees to study hazing, alcohol abuse and sexual violence among college students in fraternities. ... Dr. Ed Hammond, president emeritus of Fort Hayes State University, will lead a group studying alcohol use within fraternity culture; Allen Groves, University of Virginia dean of students, will lead a group studying sexual violence and abuse prevention; and Dr. Walter Kimbrough, president of Dillard University, will lead a group studying hazing awareness and prevention.
... “This has become the icon of this event,” says John Edwin Mason, an associate professor of history at University of Virginia. ... What struck Mason, an accomplished photographer who studies African history and the history of photography, was that this iconic image was not about Michael Brown. “It’s about resistance. Fury. Protest. Fighting back,” Mason says. “Michael Brown was nowhere in the meaning of that image. It could have been a protest over any social justice in the United States.”
“The office’s contact with patients revolves around using the Pap as a reason to get the patient in,” said Dr. Mark Stoler, a professor of pathology, cytology and gynecology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. “You’re used to filling your office five days a week with people who are coming in for annual screenings, so that you can also touch base with them on other health issues.”
As the Justice Department probes the police shooting of an unarmed 18-year-old in Missouri, history suggests there's no guarantee of a criminal prosecution, let alone a conviction. … But investigations are complicated by the fact that police officers are given latitude in their use of force, including in circumstances where an officer reasonably believed the force was necessary to capture a dangerous fleeing felon or had a good basis to fear his life was in imminent danger, said Rachel Harmon, a University of Virginia law professor and former Justice Department civil rights prosecut...
In “Why Read?”, University of Virginia professor Mark Edmundson discusses the practice of student reviews of a teacher, then writes: “As I read the reviews, I thought of a story I’d heard about a Columbia University instructor who issued a two-part question at the end of his literature course. Part one: What book in the course did you most dislike? Part two: what flaws of intellect or character does that dislike point up in you? The hand that framed those questions may have been slightly heavy. But at least they compelled the students to see intellectual work as a confr...
Other political analysts aren't so sure about Republicans' chances. Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, co-authored a piece in Politico arguing that while Republican candidates will likely pick up seats this year, several candidates have "not yet opened up a real polling lead" in key toss-up races.
The race has already become a very negative contest. But Larry Sabato, a political scientist from the University of Virginia, said a negative campaign will not necessarily drive voters away from the polls. “The research on that is mixed,” Sabato said. “Sometimes a highly negative campaign can spur turnout because people feel so strongly about stopping X or Y.”
“Remember, this is a midterm with low turnout,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
By Larry J. Sabato, Kyle Kondik and Geoffrey Skelley of the Center for Politics.