House Republicans are hurtling towards the fall with lots of concerns: how to reconcile a deadline to fund the government with conservatives' demands to defund Planned Parenthood, navigating highway funding, and the need to raise the debt limit. However, losing lots of seats or the majority next year isn't one of them. If anything, it's Democrats who have seen their fortunes fade as the recruitment season lingers on. At the beginning of the cycle, fresh off their 2014 losses, Democrats expressed enthusiasm that increased presidential turnout and the prospect of running under Hillary Clinton in 2016 would entice lots of great candidates off the sidelines. But four months into Clinton's candidacy, some are beginning to wonder if the damage caused by a relentless focus on server-gate and House Democrats' recruitment challenges aren't simply a coincidence. About six months out from the first congressional primaries of 2016 in Texas and Illinois, Democrats have landed top-quality challengers in just 14 of the 50 most Democratic congressional districts currently held by a Republican. To be fair, many of these Republicans didn't start the
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