Why New Hampshire senators support of Obama has become a big issue

CNN:

A new CNN/ORC poll shows a statistical dead heat between New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and her GOP opponent Scott Brown, with Shaheen at 49%, Brown at 47%, and a margin of error of plus-or-minus 4%.

Perhaps even more telling is another politician's approval rating, and he's not even in the Granite State.

President Barack Obama has only a 39% approval rating in New Hampshire, the new poll shows. Fifty-seven percent of voters say they disapprove of the way he is handling his job.

That's a far fall for a president who beat his Republican opponents here in the Granite State overwhelmingly in both 2008 and just two years ago in 2012.

And that's part of the problem. Brown and his supporters are tying the incumbent senator to the president, as exemplified by a recent campaign sign from Brown supporters: "Stand with Obama, vote for Shaheen."

It's why Brown rarely speaks a sentence without tying Shaheen to the president.

"She's voting with the president 99% of the time," Brown told us over and over, just has he did minutes earlier at a small business event here earlier this week.
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The 99 percent argument is hurting Shaheen, but so is her stand on immigration.  Brown is a very effective campaigner.  I would like to see him back in the Senate.