Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi declined on Dec. 13 to respond to a CNN report that she’s planning to seek another term in the House of Representatives and that she hasn’t definitively ruled out seeking two more years of holding the gavel. And keeping everybody guessing her intentions is exactly what she should do, political strategists say. Easily the most visible congressional Democrat since 2007, when she became the first woman in U.S. history to be chosen as Speaker of the House, Pelosi, 81, said on Nov. 18, 2020—shortly after being renominated as House speaker—that she would abide by her 2018 vow that her current term would be her last. That vow came in response to demands from a handful of House Democrats who were concerned about Pelosi’s advancing age and that of the other two House leaders, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), 82, and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), …