Will Pelosi step down as Minority Leader? Speculation intensifies

Now that Republicans have grown their advantage in the House and Nancy Pelosi has no prospect of regaining the speakership anytime soon, will she step down as Minority Leader? The Chronicle’s Carolyn Lochhead blogs from Washington this morning that while speculation is all over the map, only Pelosi knows for sure:

Sources said even her inner circle, which includes Rep. George Miller, D-Martinez, and Anna Eshoo, D-Palo Alto, doesn’t know what she’ll do.