One-term Florida GOP Sen. Mel Martinez has decided he won’t shoot for a second term in 2010. From his long and winding statement:

The Senate is the only federal office carrying a six-year term, so a decision about whether to run for re-election is one that my family and I have carefully considered over the past year.

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The inescapable truth, for me, is that the call to public service is strong, but the call to home, family and lifelong friends is even stronger.

But Chris Cillizza at The Washington Post mentions another possible reason why Martinez won’t shoot for another term:

President-elect Barack Obama’s victory in Florida last month coupled with Martinez’s ties to the unpopular outgoing president made him a major target for Democrats heading into the 2010 cycle. A Quinnipiac University poll conducted last month showed 36 percent of Florida voters thought Martinez deserved a second term while 38 percent did not — troubling numbers for any incumbent.

Martinez dismissed the notion that his retirement is related to his reelection chances, saying that he’s “faced much tougher odds in political campaigns and in life.”

The former Housing and Urban Development secretary under President George W. Bush said he’ll serve out the remainder of his term, though some are reporting that he might leave sooner.