Another Blue Dog Bites the Dust

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Bart Gordon of Tennessee says no thanks to next year’s political environment:

Another senior Democratic congressman from a competitive district said Monday he would retire, heightening pressure on party leaders seeking to avoid a 1994-style election defeat that would change control of the House. The planned departure of Rep. Bart Gordon (D., Tenn.), chairman of the House Science Committee, marks the fourth retirement in recent weeks, and the seventh in districts that analysts believe could change hands.

The upside, according to Democrats:

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