Charlie Cook, Political Analyst

Widely regarded as one of the nation’s keenest litmus testers on U.S. elections and political trends, Charlie Cook is the publisher of The Cook Political Report and a political analyst for the National Journal Group, where he writes weekly for National Journal magazine and CongressDailyAM. He also writes a regular column for the Washington Quarterly, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and is a political analyst for NBC News. He was once deemed "the Picasso of election analysis" by The Wall Street Journal. 

The New York Times has called Cook "...one of the best political handicappers in the nation," and noted that The Cook Political Report is "a newsletter that both parties regard as authoritative," while Bob Schieffer of CBS News refers to it as "the bible of the political community." David Broder of The Washington Post has written that Charlie Cook is "perhaps the best non-partisan tracker of Congressional races."

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