Let me rephrase, why do you think Cuccinelli can’t win? (And Boling can?)
Also you can’t “remake” a former DNC chair with tons of shrill comments on national TV as easily as you can a local Mayor. Kaine himself may well have lost if Kerry had won, there seems to be something to this correlation.
But Kaine was the DNC Chair, too. No problem for him.
Cuccinelli is already behind the unknown McAuliffe in the most recent poll, and he has been attorney general for 3 years and a state senator for 6, I think, before that. He doesn’t get any better and neither will his poll numbers.
It will be Governor McAuliffe. Thankfully we don’t allow governors to seek re-election.