Week ending March 1 | Politicker NH

Winners

Losers

Joel Maiola

Leaving Judd Gregg to set up his own consulting firm this week, we assume he'll make some serious cash now

Bi-partisan spirit

After their e-mail exchange was leaked to the press, we assume this is the last time NH GOP Chair Fergus Cullen and NHDP Chair Ray Buckley email each other in a while

With the Republican Governor's Association's very public poll out on Lynch this week, Guinta can use the news as leverage to donors that Washington thinks he has a chance against popular Democratic Governor John Lynch

Terie Norelli

As it becomes apparent that House Democrats will not vote for the education funding amendment it suggests that House Speaker Norelli doesn't have power over her caucus and that she could lose her powerful position if Democrats lose the House on the Education Funding Amendment alone

Paul Hodes

With one Washington group, the Defense of Democracies, targeting U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter only, what does that say about his race?

Freshman Senate Democrats

If the new education funding formula becomes law the large financial hits to cities and towns in the districts held by first-term Senate Democrats like Molly Kelly, Deborah Reynolds, Harold Janeway and Kathy Sgambati will make re-election tougher.