Since the 2016 presidential election, more than 15 million people have turned 18, making young people a critical voter bloc for the 2020 presidential elections this November. Kaylee Corvin, a sophomore at the University of Virginia, says that while she doesn’t always agree with Trump as a person, she will be voting for him because he aligns best with her political views.
The nonpartisan election analyst blog published by the UVA Center for Politics predicts that former Vice President Joe Biden will win a commanding victory in the Electoral College on Tuesday, picking up the battleground states of Arizona, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina, among others.
Even though COVID-19 has created tension at home, Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, says divorce rates are actually down in 2020.
Experts simply don't know if the pandemic will impact Election Day turnout for in-person voters. "Certainly it makes intuitive sense that there could be a connection, but I just don't know for sure," said Kyle Kondik, an analyst at the University of Virginia Center for Politics.
Miles Coleman, writer and editor with the Crystal Ball produced by the University of Virginia Center for Politics, talks about the Center's predictions for the presidential race and control of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House. He also suggests some key early indicators to watch for how the election will go, including for Iowa.
In 2008, when polls closed in California at 11 p.m., Barack Obama was called the winner. It took a few minutes longer in 2012, and in the last election, longer still. This year, "it might be a little bit different," said Kyle Kondik, managing editor of Sabato's Crystal Ball at UVA’s Center for Politics, said of election night, largely due to the effect of the mail-in ballots.
Larry Sabato, UVA Center for Politics professor and director, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss the swing states the center is predicting could go to President Trump or Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden.
At Monday’s virtual meeting, Charlottesville City Council prepared for future plans by looking at the city’s past when it received updates on two historical projects. An architecture class at the University of Virginia is also helping map investment, or neglect, in neighborhoods – things like which areas get paved streets or water lines.
Normally, student families would have a chance to meet with UVA President Jim Ryan in person, but this year, there was a virtual town hall instead.
The University of Virginia says no new cases of COVID-19 were reported on Grounds on Sunday and there was only one new case reported on Saturday.
The University of Virginia, with 17,000 undergrads, said it will provide every student with the opportunity to get tested before leaving Charlottesville.
You can expect to see University of Virginia School of Law students working at the polls on Tuesday. The students are verified by either the Democratic or Republican parties and are specially trained to be poll observers.
(Editorial) The University of Virginia Board of Visitors last year voted to raise tuition by 3.6% for the current 2020-21 school year. But before 2020 was far advanced, the danger posed by COVID-19 necessitated abandoning in-person classes and switching to online instruction.
Among the images featured: an ensemble of filamentous viruses that infect archaea living in almost boiling acid, credited to UVA researchers Edward Egelman and Fengbin Wang.
Ilse Cleeves, astronomy professor, and her team of graduate students are trying to better understand the origins of the chemical abundances beyond water and what drives them.
“We call everything, we call all the states in the country, in the Electoral College, we call every Senate race, we call every House race, and of course we are going to be wrong in some,” said Larry Sabato, director of the UVA Center for Politics.
Only a head coach — not a special teams coordinator — could make a decision as gut-wrenching as trying to convert a fake punt with just more than two minutes left to preserve Virginia’s 44-41 victory against No. 15 North Carolina.
Graduate transfers who joined the Wahoos during the offseason made an impact all over the field in Saturday's win over ranked North Carolina.
President Trump is locked in a dead heat with Joe Biden in the long-red state. If he loses, its two incumbent Republican senators could follow suit. While the Cook Political Report still rates the Georgia presidential race as leaning Republican, the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics sees it as a tossup.