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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By an eight-point margin, voters are now more likely to call themselves Democrats than Republicans; there was no gap in self-identification a year ago.
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A lot of members of Congress just like to hear themselves. They want to issue a press release back home. They want to make a little bit of a splash in the local papers, local TV stations, (but) most of these things aren't going to be enacted into law.
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A less visible part of the damage done by Katrina may be what's happened to the President's approval rating.
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The last vestiges of the strength he got from his handling of 9/11 are gone.