Charlie Cook
Charlie Cook
Charles Edward Cook, Jr., known as Charlie Cook, is an American political analyst who specializes in election forecasts and political trends...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth20 November 1953
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The swagger is gone from this White House.
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Those who landed in Rhode Island or Utah, I doubt will stay, ... But those in Baton Rouge, Shreveport, Dallas or Houston are more likely to stay because it is not such an alien culture. And of those who come back, what will the mix be? More African-Americans? More whites? You could argue either way.
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I think people have a sense that right now Democrats are completely powerless in Washington, that they're just sort of bystanders. But there's a danger of Democrats' looking always like they are carping. It's important for them to articulate some kind of vision.
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I think President Clinton would have liked to have traveled a lot in early '93 and reconnect with people. But the fact is, the administration was so disorganized and they were so unfocused that he didn't have the luxury of being able to travel.
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I think if McCain-Feingold goes down, Sen. McCain will still be a force in the Senate,
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Usually you jump up a little bit, then there's a settling back down of a few points after that,
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I wouldn't want to stand between Chuck Schumer and anything he really wanted.
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Right now Mississippi is at the top ebb of the sort of power curve and Louisiana is in a bit of a slump.
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I felt bad about the fumble. I didn't see a defensive back come up from the side, and he got the ball out of there.
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The president has to go on national television and tread water for an hour, while trying to make it look he's swimming the butterfly stroke.
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The quickest, simplest, easiest thing a home-owner can do is to create a defensible space around their home.
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The president looks terrible. The administration is kind of playing catch-up now.
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The visuals coming out of Hurricane Katrina suddenly took issues he was pushing and put them front and center,
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The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.