Amy Walter
National Editor, Cook Political Report
Bio coming soon.
Previously
Gather together to watch the 2020 presidential primary season continue with the second night of the official Democratic primary debate. What issues will dominate the discussio...
Gather together to watch the 2020 presidential primary season kick off with the first night of the official Democratic primary debate. What issues will dominate the discussion...
What does the Democratic Party stand for today? Even its most ardent supporters might offer widely divergent answers to this question. Can it form a coherent set of priorities...
Midterms are often seen as the first nationwide referendum on a first-term president. Donald Trump’s ratings have ranged from low to medium-low, but a “blue wave” of victories...
What factors motivate people to make it to the polls in any given year, and what keeps them away? One thing we learned from 2016 is that predicting not only how people will vo...
Beneath the tumble of day-to-day politics — the anger and crude attacks, the polarization and zero-sum thinking — vital democratic legacies are being squandered. To rebuild th...
“When they go low, we go high,” Michelle Obama famously said during the epically nasty 2016 presidential campaign. But that strategy didn’t win Democrats the White House or Co...
What has been predictable about the Trump Administration so far? What has been surprising? What have been the greatest successes — according to both pundits and the public — a...