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Lessons Already Learned From 2016 Elections

Politico calls him "one of the best political handicappers in the business." Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report and National Journal columnist says the 2016 election cycle has been, in his words, "one of the weirdest damn years ever."

 

Cook provides some rationale behind the phenomenon that has catapulted Donald Trump toward the Republican nomination for U-S President. He says present and past Republican congressional leaders can take most of the credit -- or blame.

 

 

Cook says Trump's negatives amount to more than Clinton's, which could mean her coattails resulting in a new U-S Senate evenly split between Democrats and Republicans. As far as the makeup of the new U-S House of Representatives, Cook predicts it will be even more dysfunctional than it already is.

 

 

Cook spoke to a recent American Farm Bureau conference says even if Clinton gets elected, look out; 12 years of one party in the White House will be hard to continue beyond 2020.

He adds more than 25 Democratic U.S. Senate seats will be up for reelection just two years from now, versus about eight for the Republicans.

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