Running for President Can Kill Your Political Career

First Read: “A word of warning to anyone thinking about 2016: Running for president doesn’t always help your political career. After unsuccessful presidential bids in ’04 and ’08, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) later found himself without a congressional seat. After he finished sixth in the ’08 Iowa caucuses — after moving his family to the state — Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) saw his popularity in his state plummet and decided not to run for re-election. And after briefly running for president in 2008, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson (R) lost a Senate race four years later. And now you can add Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who like Dodd finished sixth in Iowa in 2012, to this list.”

Reid Wilson:
“Bachmann may have been the loudest member of the class of 2006, the
one who inspired the most heated arguments. But she will hardly be the
most consequential; her enduring legacy may be the lessons she taught in
how to lose friends and become completely uninfluential.”