(Editor’s Note: As the end of 2013 approaches, the Washington Examiner is shining a spotlight on its top stories of the year. Today, it’s chief political correspondent Byron York on Sen. Ted Cruz as a potential candidate for the 2016 presidential election. This story first ran on Aug. 24 and can be found in its original form here.)

DUBLIN, N.H. — “I’m sick of Republicans letting Obama walk all over them,” says Denise Roberts, a Dublin, N.H., Republican who has come to a grand old home in the shadow of Mount Monadnock to get a first-hand look at Sen. Ted Cruz, perhaps the hottest might-be-candidate in the GOP 2016 presidential field.