Obama Country: Stories from the Ground

I have to admit that I share a fetish with Kos: the ground game. I get a genuine stir in my bones when I read stories like these. There's something incredibly American about organizing and getting involved with your local party, and in a nation of 300 million people, it is the lifeblood of democracy. And on a more practical note, it's how we're going to get more and better Democrats elected at all levels of government: federal, state and local.