perspective what we would like to win is virginia and it s still close. i think the fact is everywhere we do better than we did in 2012 and in the case of christie, i think his win will be big enough and impressive enough and wide enough, women, latinos, african americans, he has to be consider add serious candidate. i don t think anybody is a front runner but he s certainly in the front rank of serious candidates for 2016. just take a short break, stay with us. when we come back, more election results and the latest on chris chris tee s big win in new jersey. that runs office and has a keyboard. but i wanted a tablet for me, for stuff like twitter and xbox, so my downtime can be more like uptime. that s why i got a windows 2 in 1 which does both works as a laptop and a tablet. so i can manage my crazy life, and also have a life. [ beep ]
all of us, as well. shaping up to be very close in virginia. it s surprising terry mcauliffe and his campaign spent a ton more money than the republican cuccinelli. they had more than the repub can groups. i ll show you why if you re a betting man and we re not. we ll count every last vote. if you re a betting man put your money on terry mcauliffe, even though he s 10,67 votes at the moment. why do i say that because he s behind at the moment? let s look at the counties up here. this is where virginia won in a close election. let s look. louden county outside of washington, mcauliffe 53% of the vote to come there. if he keeps that margin, he ll make up the dech sit. that s luodoun county.
pounded on obama care and mcauliffe supported it. that lead at best current projections from a 15-point lead to 1 or 2-point win. that has to be sobering to every democrat up in 2014. van, how significant is the presence of the 47% of the vote here, i mean, if you took that out, could cuccinelli have probably won this? yeah, it s interesting and shows a problem here that the republicans and consecorvatives have to deal with. chris chris tee doesn t like that movement. it can go it s own way and went it s own way and will probably wind up costing him. this thing is a lot closer than we thought it would be in virginia. you got two factors, the libertarian movement and the extreme right wing policies of cuccinelli, those two things together give us a win in that column and i think it submits a real stronghold.
terry mcauliffe still winning, 50% of the vote in there. more than enough votes to make up the deficit there. lastly, fair fax county is more democratic county that n the otr two. 57% of the vote in. i ll get these out of the way and show you. the bulk of the vote to be counted are up here in the more moderate, more democratic of late, virginia suburbs just outside of washington dc. to win the republican win, that s the republican race for governor four years ago. bob mcdonald carried those. look at the strong red strength. president obama in 2012 carried them at the moment. at the moment as we count the votes, most of them are up here. terry mcauliffe has a strong lead. more than enough space to make up what right now is an 11,000 vote deficit. let s look at that vote now with 85% of the vote. so close, 11,424 vote difference between cuccinelli and mcauliffe.
this moving situation in virginia. for now i ll go to somebody who knows all about virginia vu s politics. he used to be the governor, mark warner at mcauliffe headquarters. thank you for joining me. the spirit dana bash told me, noisy confidence there. is that how you would describe it? i think the votes that are still out as john was talking about look good for terry. i think he ll be successful tonight. we ve already won the lieutenant governor s race. so i think it going to be a good night for our team, as well as some of the house of delegates but i think it s a bigger message is frankly, folks in virginia just as we see perhaps in new jersey, they are tired of politics running too far outside the extreme. virginia got hit worse than the most any other state by the stupidity of the government shutdown and i think they saw particularly in some of the republicans that same extremism. what does it say about the