.MaddowBlog: As congressional retirements start piling up, should Democratic leaders be concerned? Probably not yet.
As a rule, leaders of both parties like to keep retirements to a minimum. There's no great mystery behind the strategy: Incumbents generally stand a better chance of winning re-election, and the more members head for the exits, the more party leaders have to worry about competitive contests and potentially messy primaries.
Though these members may not be household names outside their home states, Doyle chairs a powerful panel on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, while Price chairs a powerful panel on the House Appropriations Committee. At face value, observers might see these announcements as evidence of real trouble for Democrats — a signal that members expect the party to lose their narrow majority in next year's midterm elections.First, of the 12 House Democrats giving up their House seats, five are running for statewide offices. If these lawmakers expected 2022 to be awful for their party, this wouldn't happen.
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