McAuliffe may have already accomplished the primary goal of voters who elected him, says Larry Sabato, head of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “McAuliffe’s mandate from the voters, after this extremely negative campaign, is very simple: to not let Ken Cuccinelli within 100 yards of the governor’s office for the next four years,” Sabato wrote in his Crystal Ball analysis. “In that sense McAuliffe has already done what he was elected to do — keep Cuccinelli out of power.”