National Politics Only in the State of Denial Is Vote-Fraud Rampant According to a recent CNN poll, 30 percent of Americans—including 70 percent of Republicans—do not believe that Joe Biden legitimately won the 2020 election. The poll question didn’t measure whether… Charlie "Chuck" Cook Charlie Cook May 14, 2021
National Politics Demography May Not Be Destiny. But Economics Likely Is. As a plot twist, the concept of reversing roles, or undergoing major and unexpected transformations, is hardly new. Tom Hanks’s breakthrough role was in Big, the 1988 film in which he played a little… Charlie "Chuck" Cook Charlie Cook May 11, 2021
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National Politics It’s All About Confidence There is little doubt that this country is both narrowly and badly divided. To the extent that there is any debate about the severity, it is whether today is worse than 1968, when both the civil… Charlie "Chuck" Cook Charlie Cook May 7, 2021
cheney National Politics The Cheney Conundrum and the Midterms AW Amy Walter May 6, 2021
cheney National Politics The Problem Isn’t Compromise, It’s Agreeing on the Problem AW Amy Walter May 6, 2021
Political Advertising OnAir: A Look at 2021 Ad Spending 2021 is off to a quick start, outpacing Q1 2019 by 33%. Despite lasting only five days into the quarter, combined spending in the Georgia Senate runoffs made up 45% of expenditures last quarter. … Kyle Kyle Roberts May 4, 2021
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National Politics Democrats’ Infrastructure Spending Could Come At a High Political Cost There is an idiom about “whistling past the graveyard”—that is, dismissing the potentially dire circumstances at hand. Congressional Democrats are doing just that, with majorities so narrow as to be… Charlie "Chuck" Cook Charlie Cook April 30, 2021
biden National Politics The Honeymoon for First Term Presidents No Longer Exists AW Amy Walter April 29, 2021
National Politics The Midterm Elections Are a Jump Ball We’ve lived through three riveting election cycles in a row—President Trump’s two races, with House Democrats’ midterm triumph sandwiched in the middle. But don’t get comfortable now, because we may… Charlie "Chuck" Cook Charlie Cook April 27, 2021
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