Okay, someone with more brains (or more coffee consumed) explain to me what this means.
"One of the biggest story lines of the 2008 elections was the large number of House Republican retirements and the multitude of competitive open-seat races that crippled the GOP's efforts to regain territory lost in 2006," Roll Call reports.
"Seven months into this Congress, however, there is not a single House Member in either party who is simply retiring from office next year. Stretching back 12 years, this is the first cycle with no retirement announcement as of Aug. 1 in the off year."
For more, see CQ's Members in Transition.
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