Could Obamacare Sink McAuliffe?

Published November 3, 2013 5:40pm ET



Could the focus on Obamacare in the last couple of weeks before Tuesday’s Virginia gubernatorial election enable the Republican nominee, Ken Cuccinelli, to come from behind in the homestretch? He’s run a pretty awful campaign so far, and has been trailing badly for months, but …

It’s striking that as Obamacare took over national headlines the last few weeks, and as Cuccinelli has focused on his opposition of Obamacare and on Democratic nominee Terry McAuliffe’s embrace of it, the race seems to have tightened from a double-digit margin to perhaps five points or less.

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