Bipartisanship
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Agreement 0.67 on a 0–1 scale; the average for State House Republicans is 0.53. Ranks 44th of 504, where 1st is the closest match.
How closely the mix of policy areas in Peternel’s statements matches the mix in the bills Peternel sponsors and cosponsors: 1 means the same areas in the same proportions, 0 means no overlap. Ranked among State House Republicans.
6 measures against State House Republicans. Peternel sits at +0.20 on the CSIP scale, more liberal than 75% of State House Republicans. 95% of Peternel’s itemized money in the 2022 cycle came from New Hampshire, in the bottom half of State House Republicans.
The measures on which Peternel sits furthest from the middle of State House Republicans, each against the same group, with the CSIP score when there is one. Every number is explained in its own section below.
Talk-to-bills agreement
State House Republicans average 0.53 · ranks 44th of 504
CSIP ideology
More liberal than 75% of State House Republicans · ± 0.05
From New Hampshire, 2022
Of itemized individual dollars · ranks 15th of 21 State House Republicans
Itemized, 2022
State House Republicans’ median $1,620 · ranks 9th of 24
Credit claiming
State House Republicans average 13% · ranks 481st of 791
Policy discussion
State House Republicans average 32% · ranks 330th of 791
Peer group: State House Republicans. Rank 1 is the highest value in the group; the thick bar is Peternel, the thin grey bar the peer average. The headline is the measure on which Peternel is most unusual among peers (Methods, §08).
Peternel attacks opponents personally about as often as the median State House Republican. Personal attacks in 0.9% of 318 statements, against 2.9% for the average State House Republican; 403rd of 791.
An AI model reads each of Peternel’s 318 statements in the NH 2025–26 session (318 posts on X) and marks the kinds of statement it contains: a personal attack, criticism of a policy, discussion of policy, bipartisanship, credit claiming, and extreme labels. A statement can carry several. Every rate is compared with the average for State House Republicans and ranked among them.
Share of statements carrying each label, the NH 2025–26 session
| Row | Peternel | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Policy discussion | 35% | 32% |
| Credit claiming | 7% | 13% |
| Policy criticism | 6% | 9% |
| Personal attacks | 1% | 3% |
| Bipartisanship | 1% | 2% |
statements classified
318 posts on X.
| Part | Value |
|---|---|
| posts on X | 318 |
The thick bar is Peternel; the thin grey bar is the average State House Republicans. A longer thick bar means Peternel does this more than peers. Rank 1 is the highest rate in the group.
Peternel used extreme labels in 0.6% of statements, below the peer average. 2 statements, most often aimed at far left; peers 1.4%.
Targets named alongside an extreme label, by number of statements
Calls a politician, a party or a policy “far left”, “far right”, “MAGA”, “extreme”, “radical”, “woke”, “fascist” or “communist”. The target is who or what the label was aimed at. The lists show the five most used labels and targets; the toggle shows the rest.
Share of statements per month, the NH 2025–26 session
| Column | Statements | Personal attacks | Policy criticism | Policy discussion | Bipartisanship | Credit claiming | Extreme labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan ’25 | 6 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Feb ’25 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Mar ’25 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Apr ’25 | 3 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| May ’25 | 0 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jun ’25 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’25 | 2 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’25 | 1 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’25 | 21 | 0.0% | 9.5% | 14.3% | 0.0% | 4.8% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’25 | 34 | 0.0% | 8.8% | 26.5% | 2.9% | 5.9% | 2.9% |
| Nov ’25 | 22 | 4.5% | 0.0% | 18.2% | 4.5% | 4.5% | 0.0% |
| Dec ’25 | 26 | 0.0% | 7.7% | 34.6% | 0.0% | 7.7% | 0.0% |
| Jan ’26 | 23 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 56.5% | 0.0% | 13.0% | 0.0% |
| Feb ’26 | 50 | 0.0% | 2.0% | 28.0% | 2.0% | 12.0% | 2.0% |
| Mar ’26 | 27 | 0.0% | 14.8% | 48.1% | 0.0% | 7.4% | 0.0% |
| Apr ’26 | 39 | 2.6% | 15.4% | 48.7% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| May ’26 | 12 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 16.7% | 0.0% | 8.3% | 0.0% |
| Jun ’26 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Jul ’26 | 7 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Aug ’26 | 4 | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) | — (fewer than 10 statements) |
| Sep ’26 | 14 | 0.0% | 14.3% | 71.4% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Oct ’26 | 15 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 40.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
Each row is one kind of statement; each cell is a month, shaded against that row’s own peak (darker = closer to the peak), with the peak and the latest value written at the right. The top row counts statements. The strip covers every month of the NH 2025–26 session, the same span as the rates above, including months with no statements. A month with fewer than 10 statements is hatched, not shaded: one or two posts would swing its rate to 0% or 100%. 11 months are hatched here; 1 of them have no statements.
Real statements from the classifier’s example set, with the labels it assigned
Bipartisanship
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Personal attacks
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Up to five recent statements in each category
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personal attacks · target: AnitaSource
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Newest first, the NH 2025–26 session
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Education is what Peternel talks about most: 50% of policy statements, 3.3 times the peer share. Talk and legislation agree at 0.67 on a 0–1 scale (State House Republicans average 0.53; 44th of 504).
Each policy statement is tagged by the AI model with one or more of 25 policy areas from the Congressional Research Service list, so the shares say what Peternel talks about. The bills Peternel sponsors and cosponsors carry the same areas, so the two can be compared.
Share of policy statements by area, the NH 2025–26 session
| Row | Peternel | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Education | 50% | 15% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 13% | 6% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 12% | 18% |
| Taxation | 10% | 8% |
| Health | 7% | 10% |
The thick bar is the share of Peternel’s policy statements in an area; the thin grey bar is the average share for State House Republicans. A statement counts once in each of its areas, so shares can add to more than 100%. The five largest areas are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
Left: share of statements by policy area. Right: share of bills. Areas in order of their share of statements; both sides run from 0 to 55%. Grey ticks are the State House Republicans averages.
| Area | Talks about | State House Republicans, talks about | Legislates on | State House Republicans, legislates on |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education | 50% | 15% | 38% | 9% |
| Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues | 13% | 6% | 14% | 4% |
| Government Operations and Politics | 12% | 18% | 6% | 12% |
| Taxation | 10% | 8% | 2% | 11% |
| Health | 7% | 10% | 9% | 10% |
talk-to-bills agreement, 0 to 1
State House Republicans average 0.53. Ranks 44th of 504.
Agreement is 1 minus the distance between the two distributions (Jensen–Shannon): 1 means Peternel legislates on exactly the areas Peternel talks about, in the same proportions; 0 means no overlap. It does not say whether the bills match the positions in the statements, only the subjects. Bills Peternel sponsored count fully, cosponsored bills a quarter. Shown with at least 20 policy statements and 5 bills.
Peternel sits at +0.20 on the CSIP scale, right of 0, more liberal than 75% of State House Republicans. Approximate range +0.15 to +0.24, which understates the uncertainty; from 50 donors and 570 roll calls.
CSIP, the lab’s Common-Space Ideal Point, places every official, federal and state, on one left–right scale, estimated from roll-call votes, who gives money to whom, and the text of statements. Negative is left of 0, positive right of it; 0 is the centre of the scale, not a definition of “moderate”.
CSIP ideal point
Approximate range +0.15 to +0.24. From 50 donors and 570 roll calls. Run 2026-10-25T215945. Blue is left of 0, red right of 0.
The outlined dot is Peternel, coloured by its side of 0 (blue left, red right, deeper further out); the bar through it is the approximate range (±1.96 standard errors), which understates the uncertainty; the grey ticks below are the medians of Peternel’s groups. 0 is the centre of the scale, not “moderate” by definition.
The score summarises how an official votes, who funds them and how they talk, relative to everyone else. It does not grade positions as good or bad, and two officials with the same score can differ on any single issue. The ± range is 1.96 standard errors, which understates the uncertainty: scores whose ranges overlap may not differ at all, and even scores whose ranges do not overlap may not differ.
Every official in each group, on the CSIP scale
| Group | Officials | Median | Share left of Peternel |
|---|---|---|---|
| State House Republicans | 2917 | +0.4 | 25% |
| New Hampshire House | 382 | 0.0 | 93% |
| All State House | 5324 | +0.1 | 59% |
Every small dot is one official on the same scale, coloured by its own score (blue left of 0, red right of 0, grey at 0, deeper further out) and spread up and down only to keep dots apart; where a group is crowded the dots overlap, and darker patches mean more officials. The large outlined dot is Peternel in every row; the rule is each group’s median. The table under the figure gives the share of each group to the left of Peternel.
Peternel reported $13.8K in the 2022 cycle, 8.5 times the State House Republicans’ median of $1,620. State filings report no small-donation total. 95% of itemized individual money came from New Hampshire.
Campaign money from state campaign-finance filings, as aggregates only; the lab never shows an individual donor. Campaigns must report by name every person who gives them more than $200 in a cycle (“itemized”); smaller gifts are reported only as one total (“unitemized”), so donor counts, donor states, employers and occupations describe itemized donors only. State filings report no small-gift total, so these figures add up itemized contributions only.
itemized in the 2022 cycle
From 50 itemized donors. State House Republicans’ median $1,620.
Each square is one percent of itemized contributions in the 2022 cycle.
| Source | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Individuals (itemized) | $13.3K | 96.4% |
| Party committees | $500 | 3.6% |
Totals say how much a campaign took in, not how it was spent, and they rise sharply when a seat is up for election; compare cycles with that in mind.
Itemized contributions, 2022 to 2022. The grey line is the State House Republicans’ median for 2022.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| 2022 cycle | $13.8K |
Itemized contributions by donor state. 95% came from New Hampshire.
State filings report no total for small gifts.
Not reported in state filings.
Individuals who gave more than $200, by donor state
| State | Value |
|---|---|
| New Hampshire | $12.6K |
| Connecticut | $250 |
| Tennessee | $200 |
| Ohio | $100 |
| Pennsylvania | $100 |
| Alaska | No data |
| Maine | No data |
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itemized donors
People who gave more than $200
from New Hampshire
Of itemized individual dollars
Every state the same size. Darker states gave more itemized money; hatched states had no itemized donors; the outlined state is New Hampshire. Gifts of $200 or less carry no address and are left out.
Itemized, 2022 cycle.
No occupations reported.
PAC and committee contributions, 2022 cycle.
Itemized, 2022 cycle.
No employers reported.
Aggregates only. Individual donors are never named.
Peternel voted with the majority of New Hampshire House Republicans on 97.4% of party-line votes and missed 7.2% of 557 roll calls. New Hampshire House on average: 95.3% party unity, 89% attendance. Across all roll calls, Peternel voted against the majority of New Hampshire House Republicans 18 times.
557 roll calls Peternel could vote on in the NH 2025–26 session, compared with New Hampshire House. Attendance is the share with a vote recorded. Party unity counts only party-line roll calls, where most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides, and is the share of those where Peternel voted with the majority of New Hampshire House Republicans. The count of votes against that majority covers every roll call where the majority took a side.
votes against the majority of New Hampshire House Republicans
Party unity 97.4%, New Hampshire House average 95.3%, ranks 167th of 381. 557 roll calls in the NH 2025–26 session.
The thick bar is Peternel, the thin grey bar the New Hampshire House average. The scale runs from 80% to 100% to show the gap.
| Row | Peternel | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 92.8% | 89% |
| Party unity | 97.4% | 95.3% |
A missed roll call has many causes, from illness to campaigning, so attendance says how often, not why. A vote against the majority can be on procedure as well as substance, and many fall on roll calls where both parties split; the key votes below show the ones that decided something.
25 roll calls the lab flagged as key in the NH 2025–26 session
| Party split (yea–nay) | Why it’s key | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2026 | HB 2026 relative to the state 10-year transportation improvement plan; relative to toll rate adjustments and periodic toll reviews for the New Hampshire turnpike system to support the 2027-2036 ten-year transportation plan; and relative to reconstruction of the Gregg Mill Road Bridge in the town of New Bost Veto Override | Yea | With majority | pass | D 143–0 · R 148–25 · I 1–0Democrats 143 yea, 0 nay; Republicans 148 yea, 25 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | party crossover |
| Aug 19, 2026 | HB 1358 establishing a commission to study transitioning all public schools to public charter schools. Veto Override | Yea | With majority | fail | D 0–143 · R 149–23 · I 1–0Democrats 0 yea, 143 nay; Republicans 149 yea, 23 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | close vote · party crossover |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 0–139 · R 161–9 · I 1–0Democrats 0 yea, 139 nay; Republicans 161 yea, 9 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | close vote | |
| Aug 19, 2026 | Yea | With majority | pass | D 0–142 · R 158–13 · I 1–0Democrats 0 yea, 142 nay; Republicans 158 yea, 13 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | close vote | |
| Aug 19, 2026 | HB 1726 relative to the sale of surplus state-owned land and establishing a commission to study the sale of state-owned property. Veto Override | Nay | Against majority | fail | D 2–135 · R 98–71 · I 1–0Democrats 2 yea, 135 nay; Republicans 98 yea, 71 nay; Independents 1 yea, 0 nay | party crossover |
Automatically: a final-passage or override vote where the measure became law, the margin was under 10%, at least 10% of either party voted against its majority, or the bill was among the 25 most mentioned in officials’ own statements. Up to 25 per window, most recent first; five are shown. Bars show yea on the left, nay on the right, per party.
The colleagues who voted the same way as Peternel most often
The colleagues who voted the same way as Peternel least often
The share of roll calls both members voted on where they voted the same way, among colleagues sharing at least 50 such votes. High agreement with members of the other party is common on routine votes.
NH 2025–26 session, loads in batches
Peternel sponsored 11 bills in the NH 2025–26 session; 1 became law. Cosponsored 42 others. 55% of sponsored bills got out of committee (New Hampshire House average 48%; 54th of 128).
The bills Peternel sponsored and cosponsored in the NH 2025–26 session, from the official bill records, and how far each got: introduced, referred to or acted on in committee, passed one chamber, passed both, became law. A bill counts at every stage it has reached, so the blocks only shrink to the right.
Counts for the NH 2025–26 session
| Role | Introduced | In committee | Passed one chamber | Passed both chambers | Became law |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sponsored | 11 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
| Cosponsored | 42 | 42 | 27 | 17 | 7 |
Ink blocks are bills Peternel sponsored, ochre blocks bills Peternel cosponsored; the figure above each block is the count. Most bills in any legislature never leave committee, so a short staircase is the norm.
of sponsored bills got out of committee
New Hampshire House average 48%. Ranks 54th of 128.
Colleagues who most often cosponsor with Peternel, by number of shared bills in the NH 2025–26 session; the square shows their party.
The score is the share of sponsored bills that a committee reported out or a chamber passed, with at least 5 sponsored bills, ranked within the peer group. Members of the majority party and committee chairs move more bills, so the rank reflects position in the chamber as well as effort. Cosponsorship partners are the five colleagues who share the most of Peternel’s bills; the toggle shows more.
Sponsored and cosponsored, with status and policy area; five are shown, the toggle shows the rest
| SB 655 | relative to employee leasing companies, workers' compensation coverage options, and a minimum wage exemption for minor league baseball players. | Cosponsor | Feb 4, 2026 | Became law | Labor and Employment(model) | Signed by the Governor on 06/12/2026; Chapter 146; Effective 08/11/2026 Jun 22, 2026 |
| SB 664 | limiting hospital executive compensation in communities designated as distressed place-based economies under certain circumstances. | Cosponsor | Feb 4, 2026 | In committee | Health(model) | Pending Motion Ought to Pass; 03/12/2026; SJ 6 Mar 12, 2026 |
| HB 1807 | relative to mandatory reports to voters. | Sponsor | Dec 18, 2025 | Passed both chambers | Government Operations and Politics(model) | Signed by Governor Ayotte 07/10/2026; Chapter 312; eff. I. Secs 1&3 eff prov sec 4 II. Rem eff 9/8/2026 Jul 16, 2026 |
| HB 1837 | relative to the New Hampshire marine patrol. | Cosponsor | Dec 18, 2025 | Passed both chambers | Crime and Law Enforcement(model) | Signed by Governor Ayotte 05/28/2026; Chapter 99; eff.05/28/2026 Jun 1, 2026 |
| HB 1828 | requiring the department of education to establish an auditing process relative to teacher preparation programs at the post-secondary educational level. | Cosponsor | Dec 18, 2025 | Passed both chambers | Education(model) | Pending Motion OT3rdg; 05/07/2026; SJ 11 May 7, 2026 |
A site that changed 1 time in 90 days. Peternel’s official site had 1 page when last crawled on Oct 1, 2026.
The lab crawls Peternel’s official and campaign websites (weekly for Congress, monthly for the states) and keeps every page’s text, so changes can be read later; it also records social accounts and describes the images Peternel posts with a vision model.
Official site
www.gencourt.state.nh.us/house/members/member.aspx?member=409151Last crawled Oct 1, 2026
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changes in 90 days
pages crawled
changes in 90 days
“Pages crawled” is the size of the site at the last crawl; “changes in 90 days” counts pages whose text differed from the previous crawl. Sites change for many routine reasons, such as new press releases, so a high count is not by itself notable.
No images from Peternel’s posts have been described.
Written by a vision model and may be wrong. Open the post to see the original. Five are shown; the toggle shows the rest.
No transcribed state floor speeches are matched to this legislator yet.
Transcribed from chamber video or captions by the lab. They are not classified for kinds of statement.
How this page was made. Profile built Oct 28, 2026; site last built Oct 28, 2026. Every number on the page is computed from the sources listed here, by the same rules for every official; nothing is written by hand.
The headline is the measure on which Peternel is most unusual among State House Republicans, chosen by one rule for every official of every party. The candidates are the rate of each kind of statement and of extreme labels, party unity, attendance, the small-donor share, the in-state share and total receipts of the latest cycle, the share of sponsored bills that got out of committee, talk-to-bills agreement, and the CSIP score’s place within the party group.
The builder ranks every measure within the same peer group the page compares it with, and writes each official’s percentile: the share of the group below the value, ties counting half, so 0.5 is the median and a value shared by many never ranks first. A measure’s score is how far that percentile sits from the median (0 in the middle, 0.5 at either end), and the highest score leads if it is above 0.25, outside the middle half of the group. Scores within 0.03 of each other are a tie, broken in this order: votes against the party majority, kinds of statement, ideology, roll calls missed, small donations, in-state money, legislation, agreement, extreme labels, receipts.
A measure counts only with at least 200 statements, 100 roll calls or 5 sponsored bills behind it and a peer group of at least 10. Two things never lead: high party unity or attendance, where most members sit, and a high rate of a kind of statement backed by fewer than 10 statements. When nothing qualifies, the headline is a neutral fact instead: statements classified, or years in office. The wording always names the direction (“in the bottom 5% of …”, “votes against the majority of …”).
Bulk files with the same data for every official:
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