You say crushing loss as if the Democratic Party is now dead in New Hampshire. In a special election in a traditionally Republican district, no one was saying it would be a Democratic landslide, or even a victory.
It is a crushing loss. Obama won the district and the Democratic candidate came within a point of winning in November. Democrats really need to have an emergency meeting about these crushing local losses they keep facing. Oh wait.....I forgot, Democrats dont care about local races, as long as they have the White House then that is all that matters. Yep, right.