As Democrats start pulling ahead in NH a lot of observers are becoming obsessed with the candidates, debates, television ads, issues, finger pointing  and so on.

All of these things are important. But what so many bloggers and pundits miss is field organizing. I'm not going to give away any secrets, but I can tell you that the Democratic party, top to bottom and bottom to top is working like never before.

I was talking to a friend in Washington DC earlier this evening. She is a veteran campaigner, we worked together on Howard Dean's campaign, she worked for Governor Lynch two years ago, then spent 17 months alongside Hillary Clinton. As I was descibing what I'm seeing here now,  I found myself gushing, and for good reason.

The co orperation between campaigns is fantastic and the number of volunteers and paid staff who grind it out relentlessly is staggering. I say grind it out because making phone calls, bundling campaign lit, getting up in the wee hours to do an early morning visibility, knocking on doors, entering data and preparing for GOTV is not glamorous.

You really have to have a dedicated work ethic to do all that, but if you don't you don't deserve to win.

Now that we are within a month of election day, the dividends of all that hard work will pay off.