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" It is a very good thing that Virginia did not hand the governor&amp;#039;s office over to a career vaginophobe who sought to outlaw blowjobs in that other Commonwealth. This is setting a remarkably low bar in 2013, and Terry McAuliffe barely cleared it. Explain to me why I should see this as anything but McAuliffe under-performing? McAuliffe got held under 50 percent of the vote against a crazy guy running on a ticket with an even crazier guy. (Fare thee well, Bishop E.W. Jackson. Good luck at your new job as pastor at the First United Church of Christ with Rubber Walls.) Meanwhile, the Republican candidate for attorney general -- who is as big and chewy cluster of fk as the two men who were at the top of the ticket -- looks like he&amp;#039;ll squeak through. A whole passel of Democratic candidates for the state legislature came up agonizingly short. McAuliffe not only didn&amp;#039;t have coattails, he barely had a flap in his longjohns. Face facts. In a sane political world. Ken Cuccinelli should have lost by 12 points. Bishop Jackson should have lost by 98. These are two guys who have to dial 1 just to place a call to &amp;quot;extreme.&amp;quot; Instead, this morning, Cuccinelli can argue fairly convincingly that he got sold out by his national party, that his ideas were not rejected, and that the destruction of the Affordable Care Act is a winning issue, provided the moneymen get behind it and push. McAuliffe even acknowledged this in his looonnnnnng acceptance speech last night, where he spent a lot of time thanking the Republicans who supported his campaign, as if most of them won&amp;#039;t go back to the business of undermining him by, at the latest, Friday afternoon. In all of this, Ken Cuccinelli won. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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