Republican Bill Johnson becomes 32nd House member not seeking reelection in 2024
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I really need some context here. I am an engineer and numbers without context mean nothing. What is the average number who leave? What is the historic high? The historic low? The mean? What is the trend line? What was happening during the high years and low years?
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/04/11/near-record-number-of-house-members-not-seeking-re-election-in-2018/ Based on the article 1992 had the most at the time, I believe the article mentioned 13%.
Here is a graph that shows the numbers from 1992 through 2018. The numbers were high in 1992 then dropped off in the Bush/Obama years. The numbers jumped again after Trump took office. I looked for charts going back further in time, didn't find anything.
https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/FT_18.02.22_CongressionalRetirement_reason.png
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/04/11/near-record-number-of-house-members-not-seeking-re-election-in-2018/
It's a great question and it's something that would take a lot of work to track down because even w/historic averages it really doesn't show the whole context.
What we really want to track is the people who have retired from the House, and who have not moved on/up to better positions.
I wonder how readily this sort of work could be farmed out to a mechanical turk service?
https://www.mturk.com/
I just wonder if there is a "normal" attrition rate of those not seeking reelection?
Nice. Winning.
They know they lost, so the rats are trying to flee the sinking uniparty ship. Don't worry, when they're in the water that's when you press their heads underwater until the bubbles stop. NCSWC
The rat's are abandoning the ship as they know the red wave is coming.
Hopefully the red tide will finish them off....