Tom Latham retires!

[Zioneer]

What glorious news! This makes up for Jim Matheson retiring.

Maybe if you don't live in Utah. We Utahns are getting a bit nervous now...

[Zioneer]

Good Lord. This is like super House retirement day.

Basically, Democrats traded a seat that they were renting for two pickup opportunities in swingy seats. 

I'd trade one solid Democratic in a swingy/trending D district for one blue dog Democrat in a crimson district any day of the week.

Yeah, me too, but it's sad that we Utah Dems have literally no one else, and now we won't even get national Dem funds because Matheson is retiring (some of those funds helped us in a few close legislative races).

[Zioneer]

SoS Matt Schultz says he's considering, while attorney Matt Whitaker says he's staying in the Senate race.



Joni Ernst, David Young, and Bob Vander Plaats all live in the district and might choose to run here instead of the harder Senate race.

Oh please let Vander Plaats be the GOP nominee; he's a terrible general election candidate.

[Zioneer]

Are we going to finally see a congresswoman from Iowa in 2015?

We could see two; if I recall correctly, the Dem frontrunner for Bruce Braley's district is a woman.