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UPDATE: Marcy Wheeler hints that this could be fallout from Dorgan’s loss on reimportation. I don’t really buy that. Dorgan’s fought a lot of lonely battles in his day, and he never gave up before. He was practically the only member of the Senate who didn’t want to repeal Glass-Steagall. If that kind of cynical legislating didn’t get him out, I doubt the PhRMA deal would have. Occam’s razor here is that Dorgan’s an old man and he wanted to enjoy his later years. I do think that, with the expectation of a less-than-60-vote Senate in the near future, which is the likely outcome after the midterms, he saw no real point to sticking around