Candidates for Virginia and New Jersey governor and New York City mayor on Monday sprinted toward the finish line of Election 2013,
trotting out the big names to keep their voters from getting complacent in a trio of races with clear — if not prohibitive — frontrunners.
In Virginia, home to this year’s marquee gubernatorial race, Vice President Joe Biden warned Democratic voters that the only way Republican Ken Cuccinelli could beat Democrat Terry McAuliffe is if they don’t bother to show up at the polls on Tuesday. Stumping for Cuccinelli a few hours later, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) portrayed the election as a referendum on the troubled Democratic health care law.
Whatever dim hope Cuccinelli has of an upset rests on abysmal turnout among Democrats. For months polls have shown McAuliffe, a longtime Democratic Party fixer and businessman, leading Cuccinelli in the high single digits. So McAuliffe has had a series of high-profile surrogates vouch for him the past few weeks – President Barack Obama on Sunday, Bill and Hillary Clinton before that – to remind party that they need to finish the job.
In New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie represents a starkly different face of the GOP. The Republican looked to be on the verge of a resounding victory in his reelection bid against Democratic opponent Barbara Buono, poised to win over independents and some Democrats in the deep-blue state.
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