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
looks playing president
The president looks terrible. The administration is kind of playing catch-up now.
few jump points settling
Usually you jump up a little bit, then there's a settling back down of a few points after that,
create easiest space
The quickest, simplest, easiest thing a home-owner can do is to create a defensible space around their home.
butterfly national president swimming television tread trying water
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.
alien argue baton dallas doubt either houston island landed likely mix stay
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.
nature roots where-you-live
Your deepest roots are in nature. No matter who you are, where you live, or what kind of life you lead, you remain irrevocably linked with the rest of creation.
exactly-is hiking rambling
And what exactly is nature walking? It's any and every kind of walking you can do in the natural world. The activity encompasses strolling, striding, sauntering, stepping, treading, tramping, traipsing, traversing, rambling, roving, roaming, racewalking, hiking, meandering, wandering, wending, pacing, peregrinating, perambulating ... in natural surroundings.
fashion sex simple
Walking is simple and second nature for most of us. It's an everyday kind of activity, not something that's frequently the rage of fashion or touted for its sex appeal. Yet few physical pursuits in this life are ultimately as rewarding. It's a wonderfully satisfying way to spend an hour, and afternoon, a day, or longer.
suicide thinking guy
The debt ceiling debacle is almost a horrible metaphor: It's as if a bomb went off at 800 Pennsylvania Avenue and sent shrapnel flying in every direction. I don't know what these guys think they're doing, but it looks like they're committing political suicide.
nature support world
Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.
nature ideas giving
The idea of regularly acknowledging our indebtedness to the natural world and giving thanks for the many gifts we receive from it, or considering other species to be our close "relations" which many indigenous peoples still do, couldn't be more alien to most of us.
moving average presidential
Not a day goes by that I don't click on RealClearPolitics at least once, the presidential poll charts, graphs and moving averages are great. If RCP didn't already exist, somebody would have to invent it.
talking risk agitation
The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.
discipline execution exemplary term
The exemplary focus, discipline and execution that was so prevalent during (Bush's) first term is sorely lacking.