Early in his career, he was a campaign consultant for Democrats and for a builders’ lobby.
he readily acknowledges some of his failed predictions. In 2006, he said he has “tread marks on my forehead” after understating the Republican gains in the 1994 midterm Congressional elections, and in July 2008, at a time when U.S. Senator John McCain had for many months been the presumptive presidential nominee of the Republican Party, Cook reminded his audience that he had “written McCain off as politically dead just a year ago”.
Cook formerly worked for on Capital Hill for then Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Jr., a Democrat from Shreveport who served from 1972-1997. Cook also worked for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Policy Committee. He has also worked on campaigns at the congressional, senatorial, and presidential levels. In addition, he worked as a pollster and campaign consultant and on the staff of BUILD-PAC, the political action committee of the trade association, the National Association of Home Builders.
I believe Charlie is a Byrd man. At the time they were considered the “better” of the high schools in Shreveport.