On Monday, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics shifted its rating of the race from “leans Democratic” to “leans Republican.” “We know based on President Biden’s sagging approval ratings that the environment is, frankly, horrible for Democrats,” wrote the University’s Kyle Kondik and J. Miles Coleman.
McAuliffe points to his record as a leader who brought jobs back to the state after the recession, and he says he’ll do the same post-pandemic. He’s also painting Youngkin as “another Donald Trump” in a bid to lure moderate Republicans in the state who were turned off by the former president, according to Dr. Larry Sabato, the Director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Glenn Youngkin may be riding a wave of “white backlash” all the way to the Virginia governor’s mansion, a leading polling expert in the state said, as the Republican led the former governor Terry McAuliffe into election day. Asked why education was a key factor in Youngkin’s stronger-than-expected showing in a state recently dominated by Democrats, Larry Sabato of UVA Center for Politics said: “One of the candidates decided it was his ticket to the governor’s mansion and he may well be right.”
(Video) University of Virginia Center for Politics Director Larry Sabato previews the election and discusses whether the results could be a bellwether for the 2022 midterms. He says “there’s simply a lot more Democrats than Republicans in the new Virginia,” but cautions it’s a tight race.
Larry Sabato, a professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow the race turned into a “bloodbath.” “I will tell you somebody high up in the McAuliffe camp that is there with McAuliffe … put it this way to me,” Sabato said soberly, “It’s a bloodbath.”
(Video) University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato joins Shep Smith to discuss the Virginia gubernatorial election and the likelihood of a Youngkin win.
(Video) CNN’s Rosemary Church speaks with Larry Sabato, political scientist and director of UVA’s Center for Politics, on what he thinks of the result of the Virginia’s governor race.
The elections set the winners for two-year terms in the House, but they could face voters again next year if the federal courts agree with longtime Democratic political operative Paul Goldman that the current districts are unconstitutional. Veteran political analyst Larry Sabato said before polls closed that he expects the party that loses the House elections this year to quickly push for new elections in 2022. “The courts have to decide whether having three elections in a row is worth the lack of [proportional] representation,” said Sabato, director of UVA’s Center for Politics. “Is the chaos...
Veteran political scientist Larry Sabato is warning Democrats to take Glenn Youngkin’s win in the Virginia gubernatorial race seriously. Sabato, the founder and director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia says national Democrats need to learn the lessons from Tuesday night’s loss. “If this wasn’t a five-alarm for for Democrats nothing will be,” he says.
(Video) The professor of politics at the University of Virginia talks critical race theory and how he thinks Glenn Youngkin would govern the commonwealth.
(Commentary; subscription may be required) UVA Political scientist and analyst Larry Sabato grew up during the era in Virginia known as “massive resistance” and in a community, Norfolk, where the schools closed rather than adopt the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision to integrate, “so I’ve always been sensitive to this,” he told The Daily Beast. … As a native Virginian, Sabato has seen the power of race to shape our politics, which is why the creator of the “Crystal Ball” political rating system housed at the University of Virginia, on the eve of this most watched race, switched his prediction from...
“Youngkin winning these college-educated white voters who are skeptical of Trump indicates Biden’s approval is likely slipping with these same types of groups in key battleground metropolitan areas like Atlanta,” said J. Miles Coleman, a political analyst at the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
Youngkin’s victory may provide a template for Republicans who will walk a fine line in competitive congressional races next year. “It’s a tricky path,” said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the UVA Center for Politics. Kondik said Youngkin deftly distanced himself from Trump while also making pledges to improve election integrity as a way to appeal to Trump voters.
Some political soothsayers said early this week that the race appeared to be breaking in the Republicans’ favor. Although the UVA Center for Politics hedged its bets a bit, it ultimately rated the governor’s race as leaning Republican on Monday, a shift from “leans Democratic.”
(Commentary) William O. “Bill” Luckett Jr. was a man with an extensive and surprising list of gifts and talents. When I learned of his passing last week at the age of 73 after battling cancer and other challenges, I recalled a day spent with him in his beloved Clarksdale when he was gearing up to run for the Democratic nomination for governor of Mississippi in 2011. Talents? Entrepreneur, attorney, pilot, Mississippi National Guard officer, developer, preservationist, actor, film producer, restaurant and nightclub impresario, and politician — and that’s nowhere near a complete recitation of Lu...
NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn, a medical doctor and veteran of launches on the space shuttle and Russia’s Soyuz spacecraft, joins three rookie space fliers on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Endurance” poised for liftoff on mission to the International Space Station. Marshburn was born in Statesville, North Carolina, and graduated high school in Atlanta. He earned a bachelor’s degree in physics from Davidson College and a master’s degree in engineering physics from the University of Virginia, then attended medical school at Wake Forest University.
Resilience has been described as the ability to withstand adversity and bounce back from difficult life events. Times are not easy now. How do we develop greater resilience to withstand the challenges that keep being thrown at us? In this interview series, we are talking to mental health experts, authors, resilience experts, coaches, and business leaders who can talk about how we can develop greater resilience to improve our lives. As a part of this series, I had the pleasure of interviewing [UVA Engineering alumna] Jill Tietjen.
Dysautonomia is not rare. More than 70 million people worldwide have the condition. Despite these high numbers, it can take patients years before they get diagnosed, and many times are misdiagnosed due to a lack of awareness in the public and medical profession. Third-year University of Virginia student Erica Szymanski first noticed something was wrong in middle school. “I started blacking out a little bit in class. I’d lost the edges of my vision and doctors weren’t really sure what was going on,” Szymanski explained.
Twenty months since she was announced by the SUNY Board of Trustees – and more than 16 since she actually assumed the office – Maurie McInnis has finally been inaugurated as Stony Brook University president. … The search committee ultimately chose McInnis, a Yale University-educated art historian with a long record of executive leadership, primarily at the University of Virginia.
Virginia Solicitor General Toby J. Heytens, a former UVA law professor, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate late Monday for a seat on the Richmond-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.