BOSTON - Lt. Gov. Tim Murray said late Tuesday night that election results from the presidential race down to state House of Representatives races illustrate the power of grassroots organizing.

In an interview at the Massachusetts Democratic Party's election night event, Murray told PolitickerMA.com that he saw grassroots organizing work in his trips to New Hampshire.

"Having been up in New Hampshire a couple times over the last month, and seeing it in action and participating in it -- literally the knocking on doors, the phone calls, the literature drops," he said. "These things that make a difference on city council campaigns to mayors races to governors races, are the same things that helped make or break presidential campaigns."

Murray said the same principles helped Democratic candidates for the state House, where, Democrats  picked up three seats. The Boston Globe projected Attleboro Democrat Bill Bowles won Republican state Rep. John Lepper's 2nd Bristol seat. In Hampden's 2nd District, Longmeadow Democrat Brian Ashe was also projected to pick up Republican state Rep. Mary Rogeness seat. And Republican state Rep. Paul Loscocco's 8th Middlsex seat was won by Holliston Democrat Carolyn Dykema.

"I think they did the groundwork," Murray, who worked for Ashe and Dykema, said. "They are good candidates who weren't just going to rely on their picture on piece of literature. They went out and did the door-to-door to make their case."