It was hard not to like Terry McAuliffe when I- along with a contingent of black newspaper columnists - met him last week. Youthful, down-to-earth and wisecreacking, he met us at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington in his shirtsleeves. Democrats were still reeling from their election embarrassment, and McAuliffe - who's borne a lot of the blame for their losses - tried to explain to us what happened.