By Stephen J. Farnsworth and Ellen O’Brien Police departments around the state need to get serious about supplying their officers with body cameras to record their interactions with the public, say 92 percent of Virginians surveyed in a new statewide poll sponsored by the University of Mary Washington. In that 1,006-person survey conducted last month, […]
Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies and Ellen O’Brien, a senior political science major at UMW and a research associate at the center, are coauthors of an article reviewing the 2015 campaigns for the Senate of Virginia. The article appeared in the October 2015 […]
By Stephen J. Farnsworth and Ellen O’Brien The harsh nomination contests among Republicans for seats in the state legislature in recent years, as well as the Dave Brat versus Eric Cantor congressional primary last year, suggest that Virginians who belong to the Tea Party movement and those who belong to the Republican Party are locked […]
