Charlie Cook Addresses ‘Most Divided Time’ in American Politics at State Legislators Summit

Political analyst Charlie Cook told audience members at the 2022 National Conference of State Legislators Summit (NCSL) that Americans are currently experiencing the most divided time in domestic politics. We’re so divided, he said, that trying to predict politics in 2024 is “just making stuff up.”

Cook, founder of The Cook Political Report, said that the intense division is narrow and even. He explained that in the 2020 presidential election, six states came to a point and a half, or less, of deciding who won the electoral vote, and that approximately 78,000 votes settled the presidency.
Further, Cook added that only twice in the last 100 years have the margins in the House been this close….