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Cuccinelli screwed up at the outset by hiring a weak Romneyesque campaign staff, that in turn convinced him to distance himself from Conservatism and to instead run a mushy "not lose" campaign.

This message should have gone out at the very beginning when McAuliffe first started hammering his silly "war on women" meme, that Cuccinelli left unanswered for months.

With that said, Cuccinelli has finally woken up over the past two weeks, and I'm heartened that he seems to be campaigning seriously now in his old aggressive style. He might just pull this out tomorrow...

In the late 1990s, some of McAuliffe’s business ventures came under investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, which filed suit against two labor-union officials, both of them with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers pension fund, for entering into questionable business arrangements with McAuliffe.

Both officials later agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for their actions, and the union itself had to reimburse its pension fund by nearly $5 million.

In one deal, McAuliffe and the fund officials created a partnership to buy a large block of commercial real estate in Florida. McAuliffe put up $100 for the purchase, while the pension fund put up $39 million. Yet McAuliffe got a 50-percent interest in the deal; he eventually walked away with $2.45 million from his original $100 investment. In another instance, the pension fund loaned McAuliffe more than $6 million for a real-estate development, only to find that McAuliffe was unable to make payments for nearly five years.

In the end, the pension fund lost some of its money, McAuliffe moved on to his next deal, and fund officials found themselves facing the Labor Department’s questions.

...and libertarians are willing to put him in office by siphoning votes from Cuccinelli with the help of Karl Rove and establishment republicans in DeeCee