Macauliffe is a weasel of the first order and will try very hard to get blacks and libs to vote “early”...it’ll be interesting to see if he can get away with it like Obozo and Kaine did.
Kaine had a very weak opponent who had trouble putting 3 sentences together. He won (his governor’s race) because he was able to take the white suburban vote not because he turned out the blacks. Meanwhile, Mark Warner won his governor’s race by running as a conservative and by capitalizing on Jim Gilmore’s incompetence. The Virginia governor off-year election really doesn’t fair well for liberals running as liberals and McAulliffe is going to have a hard time running from his past where as Warner had no past aside from his business record, making it easy for him to claim the fiscal conservative mantle. I think it is Cuccinelli’s to lose... he needs to be very careful because the media will be out to get him, but I think he has it without any major gaffes.