{"id":7151,"date":"2022-02-01T20:25:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2022-02-01T20:25:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T20:25:06","slug":"why-28-house-democrats-arent-running-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7151","title":{"rendered":"Why 28 House Democrats Aren\u2019t Running Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;members of the president\u2019s party&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/centerforpolitics.org\/crystalball\/articles\/exit-stage-left-or-right-midterm-retirements-and-open-seats-in-the-u-s-house-from-1974-to-2018\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">often leave Capitol Hill during a midterm cycle<\/a>&nbsp;because they expect the next election to go poorly. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-the-presidents-party-almost-always-has-a-bad-midterm\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">president\u2019s party almost always loses House seats<\/a>&nbsp;in midterm elections, and the more unpopular presidents are, the more ground their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/some-early-clues-about-how-the-midterms-will-go\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">party tends to lose in the House<\/a>. Considering President Biden\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/biden-approval-rating\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">approval rating<\/a>&nbsp;sits in the low 40s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/one-year-in-bidens-approval-rating-is-in-troubleonly-trumps-was-lower\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">less than 10 months<\/a>&nbsp;before the election, 2022 could sting particularly badly for Democrats.<br>It\u2019s no surprise then that more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans, 28 to 13, have decided to either retire or run for another office at this point.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-28-house-democrats-arent-running-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-28-house-democrats-arent-running-again\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;members of the president\u2019s party often leave Capitol Hill during a midterm cycle because they expect the next election to go poorly. The president\u2019s party almost always loses House seats in midterm elections, and the more unpopular presidents are, the more ground their party tends to lose in the House. Considering President Biden\u2019s approval rating sits in the low 40s less than 10 months before the election, 2022 could sting particularly badly for Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise then that more than twice as many Democrats as Republicans, 28 to 13, have decided to either retire or run for another office at this point.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[542,198,1533],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-congress","tag-elections","tag-midterms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7152,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions\/7152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}