Prospect writer Abby Rapoport discusses the race between Ken Cuccinelli and Terry McAuliffe, candidates with wildly different ideologies who will put the state Democratic party's ability to mobilize its newly blue electorate-the Old Dominion steered left in the last two presidential elections-to the test.
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