God Bless FiveThirtyEight.com

FiveThirtyEight.com has been spot on more times in this campaign season than I can possibly count. And their post today about the Georgia groundgame is just about the truest thing I've heard all week. It essentially puts into words the reason that I'm here, and why everyone else is too:

At the human level, there is almost a wistful, gravitational pull for many of these organizers in returning to a race. To work on the Obama campaign, these folks had to disconnect from their previous lives. Friendships, relationships, and other plans all took a backseat to the single-minded mission to elect Barack Obama. Plugging back into the world, especially when job plans for most of these twenty-somethings are uncertain, is a difficult task. While the pride is evident, conversations with many of these organizers reveals a strange sense of feeling lost, untethered from an all-consuming routine. So when organizers hear other organizers are coming to Georgia, it's a form of therapeutic reunion for many, much like a reunion of military veterans. Unless you've been through it, it's hard to explain.

True dat.