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STARKVILLE, Miss.--One of the nation's leading authorities on elections and political trends will share some his latest findings during a Feb. 2 public program at Mississippi State.
Charles E. Cook Jr. will be featured at the university's first Morris W. Collins Lecture Series of the 2006 spring semester. Cook is editor and publisher of the Cook Political Report and an analyst for the National Journal Group, where he writes weekly for the National Journal magazine and online CongressDailyAM.
Cook's presentation begins at 3 p.m. in the John Grisham Room of Mitchell Memorial Library. A reception in his honor follows in the same location.
Over his career, Cook has received widespread praise for his understanding of and ability to communicate about the American political system. He has been called "one of the best political handicappers in the nation," "the Picasso of election analysis" and "perhaps the best non-partisan tracker of Congressional races."
A frequent analyst for the major commercial and cable networks, Cook worked for more than a decade at Roll Call, the newspaper of Capitol Hill, before joining the National Journal Group in 1998.
The visiting speaker series is an ongoing program of the MSU library system and its Congressional and Political Research Center, as well as the student John C. Stennis-G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery Association and Stennis Institute of Government. It also is a memorial to Collins, the Stennis Institute's founding executive director.
For additional information on the program, telephone (662) 325-3328 or 325-0812.