gospel in spelling doom for mcauliffe. in ten, out of the last 11 gubernatorial elections in virginia wrote, the post, the party that won the presidency lost virginia s governorship a year later, and who was that one exception? mcauliffe who won election in 2013, but what s left out of the analysis is who drove mcauliffe to victory, black voters, black women in particular. npr wrote last week, black voters have put democrats over the top in virginia elections before, considered that in 2013, mcauliffe lost the white vote by 20 points according to exit polling, but he won more than 90% of black voters. they made up 20% of the electorate, and it was enough to help mcauliffe to a three-point victory. using his analysis of the gender gap in the exit polls, i went the extra step of declaing in a