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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Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.
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I think the leadership conference will be the first major cattle show before the 2008 election, and it should be pretty much mandatory attendance for any candidate seeking election in 2008.
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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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He'll be a force, but obviously it will be a blow if his signature issue goes down in flame.
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The last vestiges of the strength he got from his handling of 9/11 are gone.
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Playing at this level, it's ... a much faster game, and I've seen improvement (in my game). They've been on me about my play defensively down low, and I've made improvements there, and they're using me on the penalty-kill more and more.
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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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The swagger is gone from this White House.
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It can't hurt the president to remove himself from the current context of scandals, miscues and partisanship and put him in a statesman setting.
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I wouldn't want to stand between Chuck Schumer and anything he really wanted.
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The president looks terrible. The administration is kind of playing catch-up now.
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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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The quickest, simplest, easiest thing a home-owner can do is to create a defensible space around their home.
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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.