Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said that in the 2005 attorney general's race, state Sen. R. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic candidate running against Republican Bob McDonnell, gained several hundred votes from election night to recount day. McDonnell prevailed by 323 votes out of 1.9 million cast. "No one knows if it will play out the same way again," Sabato said. "But in every statewide election, there are loads of tally errors, transposed numbers, and the like. Both Obenshain and Herring are in limbo until the recount is over....