That's rather worrying. McAuliffe needs to win by double digits in order to not give the GOP momentum heading into 2022.
You’re afraid of your own shadow.
Yes, and no matter how Virginia turns out, it will have zero implications for 2022 whatsoever.
even 2009 while it foreshadowed a wave didnt have much implications for 2010 given that the GOP in 2010 didnt do that great in blue states like the New Jersey result in 2009 would indicate and while they did great in swing states nothing like the 2009 Virginia result would have portended.