I'm starting to feel bad…

…for Hillary's New Hampshire campaign crew. Everybody seems to have an opinion about what happened, but it seems no one wants to consider the notion that a whole bunch of smart, well organized people worked their butts off to in an old fashioned shoe-leather retail campaign.

Given the resources she had, I wonder how deeply she targeted. One reason the polls were off is the record turnout, of course. Many people who voted wouldn't have survived the pollster's 'likely voter' screens. The weren't 'likely voters.' They were turned out, and more of them by Hillary's field operation than any other, it seems.

Sometimes the secret of success isn't complicated, though it's hard. Sometimes the secret is just work. Clinton's not my first choice, but she's a good candidate, and her field operation had resources that just weren't available to the other candidates. They apparently exploited those resources brilliantly. Why is that so hard to consider, let alone admit?