It is just nine months before Election Day and dozens of members from the US House and Senate are heading for the exits.
2/2020 and the election is months away but a couple of dozen members of Congress have opted out of running for another term.
That’s not far off the average number of retirements, resignations and other voluntary departures for a full election cycle, according to a Pew Research Center analysis. https://www.people-press.org/
Over the 14 election cycles between 1992 and 2018, an average of 41.2 House members each cycle chose not to run for reelection. During those cycles, the numbers ranged from a low of 30 (in both 2000 and 2006) to a high of 65 in 1992. The 1992 election cycle holds the record for voluntary House departures going back to 1930, based on this analysis. Vital Statistics on Congress http://brook.gs/2eIZ41v
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