Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia professor, prognosticator and director of UVa’s Center for Politics, in August put the 12th District third on his list of hotly contested Republican districts.
Larry Sabato's "The Kennedy Half-Century" will appeal to history buffs and political junkies alike. There probably will never be a satisfactory answer to who did what on Nov. 23, 1963, but Sabato's book will answer many questions -- as well as raise many more.
"I could write this article every day I see patients," said David C. Slawson, MD, a professor of family medicine at the University of Virginia Health System. "I practice in the rural part of one of the wealthiest counties in America. Nearly half of my patients are uninsured or underinsured, and I work monthly in our local free clinic with similar patients."
Geoffrey Skelley, a political analyst at the University of Virginia's Center for Politics, said things “look bleak” for Cuccinelli. “The aggregate polling indicates an increasing McAuliffe lead, and the latest fundraising numbers show an ever-growing McAuliffe advantage there, too,” he said. McAuliffe raised a reported $6.2 million in September, versus Cuccinelli's $3.4 million.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, has been following state campaigns since the mid-1960s. He said he has never experienced a Virginia election “in which so many voters and editorialists are upset at the choice.” Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Ken Cuccinelli “just seem to rub thousands of people the wrong way — both of them,” he said.
"He was already an underdog," said Larry J. Sabato, who directs the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "Something like this can kill you."
The University of Virginia said Friday that it is monitoring the problem but has made no decision on whether an extension is necessary.
That’s making it less likely that marriage itself will move someone up the economic ladder, and increasing the chances that two low- or high-income people will couple up and share their economic struggles, or fortunes. “The doctor used to marry the nurse. Today, the doctor marries the doctor,” said Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, which has documented the rapid decline of marriage among people with just a high school degree.
Pancakes flew off the griddles Saturday morning at an annual tradition on the University of Virginia grounds. Hundreds attended the annual Pancakes for Parkinson's breakfast on UVa.'s Lawn.
Robert Turner, who teaches national security law at the University of Virginia School of Law, argues that McCaskill is sending the wrong message to military jurors and judges by blocking Helms’ nomination. “This message says that if you get any kind of a case that involves allegations of sexual impropriety, you had better side with the complainant,” said Turner, associate director of the Center for National Security Law, in an Oct. 24 interview with Air Force Times. “If you’ve got one member of the Senate with the power to destroy your career, there’s a horr...
(Commentary) Anne M. Coughlin, a law professor at the University of Virginia, said that she has often wanted to warn young woman that their danger of rape rises greatly when they get blind drunk, but she avoids doing so because “I know the advice will be misunderstood and misused.”
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, a leading political website based at the University of Virginia, said he’s always seen Schweitzer as “kind of an interesting wild-card presidential candidate. He’s on our list but right on the bottom.”
It is also not happenstance that the blow-up over the recent government shutdown felt so raw, and that there is ever less comity in Congress. As the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato observed, “When you have parties so divergent in views, regions, and genders, the culture wars could escalate from conventional to nuclear weapons.”
Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said, “It’s a rare candidate who doesn’t have some kind of financial problem or missed tax deadline, but Jackson has well above the average number” of money controversies. “Voters are willing to forgive an occasional slip-up. (But) it starts to hurt a candidacy when there is a clear pattern of sloppiness or incompetence. Jackson is falling into the second category.”
(By Raghavendra Rau and Marc Lipson; Lipson is Robert F. Vandell research professor at U.Va. and co-editor of Financial Management) The UK periodically goes through a Research Excellence Framework (Ref) exercise, assessing research over a five-year period, currently 2008-2013. Every submission from across the country is assessed on its quality, with an important criterion being the prestige of the journal and the rigour of its peer-review process. Peer reviewers are researchers with established reputations. But while these peers can provide careful and reasoned evaluations of work, a common co...
Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the University of Virginia, a leading political website, says if Daines is looking ahead to next year’s general election, when he’ll have to attract independents and moderates to win, his Oct. 16 vote to reopen the government makes sense. “I think he made the smart political vote, given that the (Senate) nomination is basically his if he wants it,” Kondik said.
“He stands out among all the modern presidents,” says historian Larry J. Sabato, whose book, “The Kennedy Half Century,” has just been published. “Franklin Roosevelt was more consequential, and Harry Truman may have been, too. But Kennedy overshadows them all. He’s the one president from the post-World War II era who could appear on the streets now and fit right in.” … Andrew Ball, senior historian at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, noted that the first decade after Kennedy’s assassination was defined by the stately...
A team of UVa. Engineering and Applied Science students have been chosen as one of ten teams in the United States to work along side NASA to study cosmic radiation on the stratosphere.
Archie Holmes, professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Virginia, has been given the additional duties of associate provost for the undergraduate educational experience.
(Commentary) Thursday marked an ominous anniversary for the world of swimming: Three years ago, Fran Crippen died during an open water 10k race outside of Dubai. The graduate of the University of Virginia and Germantown Academy succumbed to what was determined to be dangerous conditions in the World Cup race that day, swimming in water that was warmer than the 86-degree recommended limit with an air temperature even hotter. Those conditions, along with adequate safeguards for swimmers’ health, combined to cost the 26-year-old his life. Even three years after Crippen’s death, FINA, ...