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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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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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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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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I think if McCain-Feingold goes down, Sen. McCain will still be a force in the Senate,
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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 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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The president looks terrible. The administration is kind of playing catch-up now.
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The exemplary focus, discipline and execution that was so prevalent during (Bush's) first term is sorely lacking.
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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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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 risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.
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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.
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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.