The full version of this article was originally published on TheHill.com, linked below.
By Rick Manning
Many are predicting a bad year for Democrats in 2014, and Democratic apologists are pointing to an unfavorable map as the reason.
It is true that Democrats had to defend a number of incumbents who represented states that voted for GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012, but this argument really holds little water, as many of those same incumbents won in 2008 when their states voted against President Obama’s election.
New Hampshire’s Senate race proves that this election is about something much more significant than the vagaries of the election map. Instead it is about issues, and one issue in particular — amnesty for illegal aliens.
