"Lame duck sessions usually don't accomplish much, so you always bet against them," says Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia. "But we all remember the surprise agreement on taxes reached by both parties and the president in December 2010. Maybe-only maybe-Obama will reach out to the GOP and try to solve at least parts of the fiscal cliff dilemma now."
"Obama’s team delivered exactly what they said they would — the best ground game with individual targeting that we have ever seen at the presidential level," Larry J. Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, said in an email.
(Commentary) “It wasn’t just a peck on the cheek,” said Larry Sabato, the noted University of Virginia political scientist, explaining the bitter reaction to Christie’s late-campaign “bromance” with Obama. “It was a wet kiss.”
"So much of this came back to Allen's Senate record," said University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato. "And while he'd never trade the six years he had there from 2001 to 2006, his voting record and the enduring controversies of the Bush administration with which he was aligned hurt Allen again and again."
The University of Virginia’s U.Va. Innovation has taken a relatively new marketing tack with the August launch of its “Product Pipeline,” which focuses on later stages of the commercialization process and on the impact the discoveries are having on society.
As politics has come to encompass more and more issues of daily life, fights over these values feel personal and emotional, said Matt Motyl, a doctoral student in social psychology at the University of Virginia who researches political incivility.
No. 2 on this list is Roger Garrison, who earned a Ph.D. from U.Va. in 1981. According to the article, he is probably most famous for his book. 'Time and Money,' which offers a harsh criticism of Keynesian graphical analysis and provides a graphical outline for capital-based macroeconomics."
If you have an extra $42 and move quickly, you can ensure that the University of Virginia will consider your scores from both the October and November SAT’s as part of your Early Action (EA) application.
The pundits may have been surprised when this state went blue on campaign maps, but at least two people at the University of Virginia were not surprised in the least. Last summer, Michele Claibourn and Dustin Cable – research associates at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service – issued a report suggesting Virginia was in transition – from its historical red roots to a blue state.
University of Virginia students were hard at work Wednesday building a large creature. The spider-like monster will be almost 25 feet long and 12 feet tall by the time the group finishes it Thursday night.
A special medical procedure at the University of Virginia is changing the way doctors help patients with failing hearts. The hospital is the only one in the region treating patients with a Left Ventricular Assist Device.
"It was a little like trench warfare with a lot of money spent, lots of ads run, not a ton of movement, but the movement was positive for the Democrats," said Kyle Kondik, communications director for the University of Virginia's Center for Politics. "I think there are a lot of Republicans probably scratching their head."
Newcomb Hall at the University of Virginia was transformed into a craft shop Wednesday. It was the annual Artisans' Bazaar hosted by the UVA Arts and Enrichment Committee.
(Video) University of Virginia politics professor James Ceaser joins the News Hub to discuss the real meaning behind the election results, and why he think that the U.S. is poised for another New Deal-type era.
Medical doctors are as biased against obesity as the general public is, according to a study published Nov. 7 in the open access journal PLoS ONE by Janice Sabin from the University of Washington, Seattle, and colleagues from the University of Virginia.
Even as the Rotunda stands swaddled in scaffolding, one traditional element of winter on the University of Virginia’s Lawn is back. Smoke once again will rise from Lawn and Range room chimneys.
According to Brad Wilcox, Director of the National Marriage Project and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, the data suggests that the President’s message resonates specifically with those women living the consequences of family breakdown. “Single mothers are more likely to depend on a generous welfare state and therefore to identify with the expansive governmental vision of the Democratic Party,” Wilcox told LifeSiteNews. “By contrast, married mothers are less likely to depend on the welfare state and therefore to identify with the limi...
(Commentary) Several decades ago I used to enjoy an occasional lunch with the late Professor G. Warren Nutter, a distinguished economist who taught at the University of Virginia.
Kyle Kondik with the University of Virginia's Center for Politics said this election makes Virginia an important political state. "I think Virginia is a key state. It kind of looked like it might be going to Romney, but it went with the president. I think it's going to be a bellwether state in American politics going forward here," he said.
Part of that turnout was trickle-down support for President Barack Obama, said Kyle Kondik, an analyst with the University of Virginia Center for Politics and the only pundit to predict a Gallego win.