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Lone Democratic congressman from Arkansas won’t run for re-election

12:26 PM 07/25/2011
Alex Pappas
Political Reporter

The lone Democrat in the U.S. House Representatives from Arkansas will not run for re-election, the Associated Press reports.

Rep. Mike Ross, who represents the state’s 4th congressional district, plans to make the announcement Monday in Little Rock. Ross is said to be considering a run for governor in 2014.

It’s bad news for Democrats. National Journal reports that Ross is now the fourth Blue Dog to “head to the exits this year after a midterm election cycle that decimated their ranks.”

“Ross’s retirement makes his House seat a prime battleground for 2012, one that Republicans believe they can pick up,” according to Jessica Taylor at National Journal.

“The current district favored Republicans at the national level, voting 58 percent for John McCain in 2008.  Under the state’s already-approved redistricting plan, it becomes slightly more Republican.”

Tags: Arkansas, Elections 2012, Mike Ross

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  • student1776

    Good move on his part. Obama got away with blaming the stagnation on Bush last time. But more and more people are noticing that the recovery of 2009 was aborted by Obama’s policies of hyper-regulation, increased taxation, forced unionization through abuse by the NLRB, and imposition of CO2 caps through abuse of the EPA. With the poisonous anti-business environment Obama has created we will progress from stagnation to stagflation over the next few years. Any Democrat in a district that is not rabidly leftist (SF, Cambridge, Ann Arbor, Berkeley anyone?) will lose badly. Better to get out of Dodge gracefully than to be booted out by the voters.