Posted by DEAN SKIP RUTHERFORD – Charlie Cook, of Washington D.C., editor of the Cook Political Report, an NBC commentator and certainly one of the nation’s most respected political analysts, spoke Sunday at a leadership program of the Southern Legislative Conference in partnership with the University of Arkansas System, the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute and the Clinton School. Legislators from all over the South were in attendance. The conference is being held on Petit Jean Mountain and at the Clinton School.
Cook predicted that Republican Mitt Romney and Democrat Hillary Clinton would be the nominees for president in 2008. He also projected Democratic gains in the U.S. Senate (4 to 6 seats) and in the U.S. House (about 10 seats). He praised former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and said Huckabee, despite not raising much money, would be on the “short list” for the Republican Vice Presidential nomination.
Cook, a huge sports fan whose parents attended the University of Arkansas, watched Saturday’s Razorback football game against Tennessee-Chattanooga as the guest of Arkansas House Speaker Benny Petrus. Leaving the game before halftime, Cook told those at the legislative conference that he couldn’t remember ever seeing a more dismal performance by an SEC football team.
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