Retirement watch: Which senators are quitting in 2014?
Jay Rockefeller won’t talk about it. Neither will fellow Democrats Tom Harkin, Carl Levin, Tim Johnson and Frank Lautenberg.
None of these senior senators will give a definitive answer about whether they’re running for reelection in 2014…
Landrieu said she’s not concerned having to run in a state where President Barack Obama lost by 17 percentage points to Mitt Romney.
“The people of my state aren’t going to be voting for the president — they’re going to be voting for me,” Landrieu said in an interview. “I think I’ve built a tremendous record of delivering big things for the state of Louisiana.”
On the Democratic side, Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin has been somewhat vague about his future. A retirement by the No. 2 leader in the Democratic Caucus would cause a significant shake-up in the Senate leadership hierarchy. His office pointed to a comment he made to Crain’s Chicago Business earlier this month when he signaled he’d run but left open his options.
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As long as we keep nominating candidates that put their foots in their mouths, does it really matter?
JimLennon on November 27, 2012 at 9:23 PM
Like those kickbacks/bribes you took to flip your Obamacare vote?
JPeterman on November 27, 2012 at 9:24 PM
*Durbin… Durbin… Durbin…*
Maybe, if I wish it, it will be so…
Fallon on November 27, 2012 at 9:33 PM
I would give urban elitist’s left arm and leg for the answer to be “all of them”.
None of these servants of the people ever leave voluntarily after 1 or 2 terms, every last one claws, bites, and descends into the gutter if necessary to keep themselves in office for as long as possible.
Bishop on November 27, 2012 at 9:34 PM
I think one of the problems may be that to statists, the greatest career that they can imagine is being a part of the state. For non-statists, any marginally competent person wants nothing to do with the state. Thus, we’re left with the fifth tier candidates, whereas the statists field their top tier.
besser tot als rot on November 27, 2012 at 10:27 PM
May the, McCain and Reid, and a few others, all end up in the same pen, in a chreche, in diapers/Depends.
Go to Hades, all of you.
Schadenfreude on November 27, 2012 at 10:56 PM
Please, some of you moneybags in South Carolina find someone to back in the republican primary. We have got to get rid of Lindsey girl.
chris999 on November 27, 2012 at 11:48 PM
Wow. All of the retirements mentioned in the article would be good news. 2014 might be a good year for America.
WannabeAnglican on November 28, 2012 at 8:17 AM