Dear Readers: Please join us this evening for a special University of Virginia Center for Politics virtual event: “The Shock of January 6,” commemorating the first anniversary of the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. UVA Center for Politics Director Larry J. Sabato will moderate the event...
Author: Larry Schack and Mick McWilliams
NEW Center for Politics/Project Home Fire Findings: The Polarization of Attitudes on Voting Rules
Dear Readers: Join us tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. for our annual American Democracy Conference. The virtual event will begin with a presentation by Project Home Fire’s Larry Schack and Mick McWilliams on our ongoing polling and data analytics project -- their latest report is below. They will...
Project Home Fire Brief Shot: Election Law Changes
Brief Shots are quick, newsworthy notes from the UVA Center for Politics/Project Home Fire polling and data analytics project. See here for more information on the ongoing project. Last week, Senate Republicans blocked action on the Freedom to Vote Act. By way of background, this legislation would enact automatic voter...
New Center for Politics/Project Home Fire Findings: Biden Voters More Likely to Value Compromise
Project Home Fire Brief Shot: The Abortion Divide Brief Shots are quick, newsworthy notes from the UVA Center for Politics/Project Home Fire polling and data analytics project. On Monday, President Joe Biden’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block a Texas law that imposes strict limits on abortion. The...
Project Home Fire/Center for Politics Research Reveals Outsized Role Immigration Plays in Fueling our National Divide
Dear Readers: This is the second in a series of planned releases on a polling and data analytics project conducted by the University of Virginia Center for Politics and Project Home Fire, a new initiative committed to identifying and addressing the social, political, and psychological divides between those who voted...
Support for Secession Linked to Conspiracy Belief
Drilling deeper into a noteworthy finding from last week’s UVA Center for Politics/Project Home Fire report
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE -- Belief in conspiracy theories is most consistently correlated with Biden and Trump voters who favor secession. -- The majority of citizens who voted for Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the last election, when combined, believe in at least one of the conspiracy theories...