"Charles Edward Cook, Jr.", known as "Charlie Cook", is an United States/American political analyst who specializes in election forecasts and political trends.

Cook writes election forecasts and rankings in his own publication, The Cook Political Report, and in other media. He is a political analyst for the National Journal and since 1994 with National Broadcasting Company/NBC. Cook writes two columns for National Journal, the "The Cook Report" for the main publication and "Off to the Races" for the online National Journal Congress Daily. Since the United States presidential election, 1984/1984 US presidential election, Cook has provided election night commentary for various television networks.

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The swagger is gone from this White House.

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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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Today, the playing field is tilted in favor of Democrats. It doesn't mean it will be tilted as much or even in the same direction next month, let alone a year from now, but that's where it is now.

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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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If Democrats want to argue that the administration misrepresented and distorted the prewar intelligence, OK, that's one thing. But if they push the argument that they have been duped, fooled and victimized - well, to a lot of [independent swing] voters, they're just going to come across as weak.

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They know they have horrible problems and they came up with the least risky move they could make.

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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 exemplary focus, discipline and execution that was so prevalent during (Bush's) first term is sorely lacking.

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