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To: SilentZ who wrote (549975)	2/14/2010 5:07:19 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574249

So far its 33, and by comparison, 31 retired in 2008 which I thought was a big turnover year. Not sure. Yeah, I can't figure out what the average number of retirements per cycle is. But in 1994, 28 Dems retired. This year so far it's 13 and I can't imagine that there are more than 1 or 2 still coming. I didn't realize the Dem number was so high. Having said that. I think there were only 6 R retirements in 1994. So if you add the numbers together, its about the same as this year. So maybe this year is significant but not the watershed I thought it was becoming. What's interesting.....apparently back in 1994, the Dems never expected to lose 56 seats. So it came as a big schocker. At least this year, they are a little more aware of the possibilities. I just did a double check......I found numbers on the retirements for 2008, 2010, and 1994. Nothing for the intervening midterms between 1994 and 2008. That leads me to believe the retirements for the noted years are highs and not averages.