Charlie Cook

Charles Edward Cook Jr. (born November 20, 1953) is an American political analyst. Specializing in election forecasts and political trends, Cook writes election forecasts and rankings in the publication he founded, The Cook Political Report, and in other media. Since the 1984 US presidential election, Cook has provided election night commentary for various television networks. In 1997, Cook started producing the Cook Partisan Voting Index. A political analyst for the National Journal and NBC, Cook writes two columns for National Journal. In 2013, he was a resident fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics.