All Quiet On The Northeastern Front

New Hampshire’s time in the political spotlight is over for now.

The national media has moved on to South Carolina and Florida to cover the candidates as they campaign for the next victory. The campaigns have also shifted their focus and are pooling their resources into the future elections across the country.

Volunteers who are still in New Hampshire can now only wait to see if their candidate earns the nomination before they go into action.

Mitt Romney’s volunteers at his New Hampshire headquarters in Manchester are lying in wait for the next step, invigorated by his dominance in the New Hampshire Primary.

“The attitude is of course ecstatic about the win last night, it was very exciting,” said Romney’s senior adviser for New Hampshire, Jim Merrill. “It was a really tremendous win for us, but now we kind of close up here for a little while.”

Their headquarters seemed to be the calm after the storm as a few volunteers organized the day’s clean-up efforts.

Merrill said volunteers have been sent to South Carolina and Florida, but the team here will maintain contact with the national campaign for its next move. He added that you can expect to see a lot of Romney in the fall if he is named the Republican nominee.

“The governor has been committed to New Hampshire from day one, and if he is the nominee, I can assure you he will be back here early and often,” said Merrill.

The few volunteers at Jon Huntsman’s headquarters in Manchester seemed to be in battle mode, getting ready to bring in voters in other states.

None of them would comment to press, but it was obvious that the team was motivated and ready to carry on the the previous night. Some were moving on to assist in other areas of the nation, such as New York, while things wrapped for now in New Hampshire.

At the Ron Paul campaign headquarters in Concord, a number of volunteers were packing up materials, signs, leftover leafets, and other items to send around to other states, to keep the campaign's momentum going.

Brian Early, media spokesperson and field organizer for Ron Paul’s New Hampshire effort, said everyone involved in the campaign was “pumped” and “excited” by the results on Tuesday.

“It’s great,” he said. “We did better than we expected. We all feel great … and it was nice to get the morning off to get some sleep.”

Early said there were small things the campaign would have done differently here and there, but nothing major. He said the hundreds of volunteers just keep working harder and harder to get as close to winning as possible.

“We had a great game plan, we stuck to it, and we got what we wanted,” he said. “It was executed very effectively and it showed in the results.”

Early said while there was no official, organized effort to head to other states, some volunteers were heading to South Carolina to help, in an unofficial capacity, until they received more guidance from the national campaign.

Gingrich’s headquarters in Manchester had only one volunteer watching over the place, while the rest of the volunteers were busy collecting campaign signs.

He declined to comment on the campaign’s next steps, but said that the New Hampshire headquarters would be active at least until Super Tuesday comes along.

No one was around at Rick Santorum’s headquarters in Bedford, which now resembles Rick Perry’s New Hampshire headquarters, which have been abandoned for several days.