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Virginia Election Bad for Obama

Many of the political polls monitoring the Virginia governor’s race pointed to a 10-to-12-point victory for Democrat candidate Terry McAuliffe. But something happened on the way to polls that saw the former Democratic National Chairman trail Republican challenger Ken Cucinelli most of the evening before eking out a 3 percent victory. Political pundit Dick Morris’ take from the election is not very good news for the Obama administration.

“McAuliffe was supposed to win by 10 or 12 points, and he outspent his opponent by 2-to-1,” Morris says. “But the really bad news in Virginia for Obama is the question everybody’s been asking about the Virginia race and has skewed the polling in it, is which turnout model did you use? Polling is very effective in saying how people are going to vote, but not very effective in telling us whether they’re going to vote or not.” Morris elaborates on his hypothesis in this edition of “Dick Morris Reports.”