(By Larry J. Sabato, editor in chief, Kyle Kondik, managing editor and Geoffrey Skelley, associate editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an online political newsletter and website emanating from the University of Virginia Center for Politics) A year ago, almost everyone who followed Virginia politics thought that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Republican, had the inside track to winning the governorship. After all, it was in the 1880s when Virginia last gave a party just four consecutive years in the Governor’s Mansion. And Cuccinelli held one of the two positions that have served as ...