[az_gila]

My guess would be something health related. I wouldn't put it past him to concoct some elaborate “I've fallen and I can't get up!” scenario to fool the 25% hard core left into believing that he can't run again.

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Do it late in the campaign and get the “sympathy vote” too?

[Windflier]

Do it late in the campaign and get the “sympathy vote” too?

He'll have to pull in the sympathy vote for someone else, 'cause he's got to go, if they've got any hope of keeping the White House.

Biggest trouble the Dems are going to have, is in finding someone to replace him. That's a very tall order.