win by the widest margin ever for a nonincumbent. and, of course, there's virginia. my beloved virginia, the other governor's race this year besides new jersey. the virginia race has appeared to be leaning very strongly in favor of the democratic candidate with the washington post poll as of monday putting terry mcauliffe over cuccinelli by 20 points. women preferring mcauliffe by 24 points. but then two days ago, a new poll released which shows a much, much closer contest for virginia governor. in the poll, he's still in the lead but only by four points now. for a candidate who has nod led a poll outright since he led exactly one back in mid july, ken cuccinelli being down by four in october represents an epic surge, a cuccinelli surge