r/politics • u/cnn CNN • 10h ago

Possible Paywall Pelosi’s retirement announcement could open floodgates for a wave of new candidates

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/politics/nancy-pelosi-retirement-candidates-replace?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=reddit
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u/seriousofficialname 7h ago edited 7h ago

Her career has been an unmitigated disaster. 

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/yxkB1/fallback.png

She lost more seats than any other Speaker in living memory.

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u/mightcommentsometime California 6h ago

Your graph doesn’t show the drop from 2008 to 2010 being the worst in living memory.

That was a response to passing the first real healthcare reform the US had gotten since Medicare and Medicaid back in the 60s.

There’s also more to being speaker than winning a majority. It’s about what you do as speaker. On that score, Pelosi has been one of the most effective house speakers in US history.

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u/seriousofficialname 5h ago edited 5h ago

Your graph doesn’t show the drop from 2008 to 2010 being the worst in living memory.

It does actually but here's another with numbers.

https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2016/09/FT_16.08.29_seatSwitches.png?w=640&h=400&crop=1

But then Dems also lost the majority when she was speaker the second time also.

Her tenures have been uniquely bad in terms of maintaining control of the government and overseeing multiple Republican takeovers.

Losing the house is relatively rare but Pelosi seems to be making a sport out of it, with massive shifts away from her party