Big get for Team Gingrich; problematical for Team Romney, given that the New Hampshire paper spent a good portion of the time between its 2007 endorsement of John McCain and the New Hampshire primary going after Mitt Romney… to Romney’s eventual cost. Now, the numbers are a bit different between then and now; Romney’s in a noticeably better position. Whether that survives a reprise of 2008 cycle is another question entirely.
But do note: the Union-Leader doesn’t have a notable track record in picking candidates. Although I don’t know why I’m bothering to tell you that: given their past sledgehammer-the-fly track record when it comes to pushback on bad news, Team Romney will end up using a fifty-foot laser cannon to inscribe that fact on the surface of the moon…