Talk:Almanac of American Politics

Updates needed for Almanac of American Politics Wikipedia page

• What I think should be changed (include citations):

Hello, I am Lou Jacobson, the new chief author of the Almanac of American Politics (2026 edition). I noticed that the Wikipedia page hasn't been updated in about a decade. I can direct you to our website for the fully updated information -- https://www.thealmanacofamericanpolitics.com/index.aspx -- but I can zero in on a few areas where changes should be made.

1. The link above will show you the front cover image for the forthcoming 2026 edition. Feel free to use that to replace the 2016 edition.

2. The current version says, "The 2014 and 2012 editions of the Almanac are both 1,838 pages long." You can change that to "The 2024 edition was 2,123 pages long."

3. The current version says, "The co-authors of the 2016 edition are Barone, Richard E. Cohen, Charlie Cook, and James A. Barnes." That should be replaced by, "The chief author of the 2026 edition is Louis Jacobson. The co-authors are Richard Cohen and Charlie Cook. The senior authors are Louis Peck, Jessica Taylor, Cameron Joseph. The founding author is Michael Barone."

4. To keep the author section to the same number of people -- 4 -- you can replace that entire section with the current bios for the top four authors:

Louis Jacobson, Chief Author of the 2026 edition and chief correspondent for PolitiFact. He previously served as senior author of the 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024 editions of the Almanac, as principal contributing writer for the 2004 edition and as a contributing writer for the 2000 edition. He is a regular contributor on state politics to Sabato's Crystal Ball and U.S. News and World Report. Since 2002, Louis has handicapped political races, including races for Congress, governor, state legislature, other state offices, and the electoral college. Louis has served as deputy editor of Roll Call and as the founding editor of its legislative wire service, CongressNow. Earlier, Louis spent more than a decade as a reporter covering Congress, politics and lobbying for National Journal.

Rich Cohen, Co-Author, was Chief Author of The Almanac of American Politics from 2015 to 2024. Rich has written about Congress for National Journal, Politico and Congressional Quarterly. Rich is the author of several books, including Washington at Work: Back Rooms and Clean Air, a case study of the 1990 Clean Air Act, and Rostenkowski: The Pursuit of Power and the End of the Old Politics. Rich co-authored The Partisan Divide, with former Reps. Tom Davis of Virginia and Martin Frost of Texas. In 1990 Rich won the prestigious Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for distinguished reporting on Congress.

Charlie Cook, Co-Author and Contributor to The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and a political analyst for the National Journal Group. Charlie has appeared on the ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Evening News and the NBC Nightly News, on ABC’s This Week and for over a dozen times since the 1990s on NBC’s Meet the Press. Charlie was a political analyst and consultant over the years for CBS, CNN, and NBC News. In 2010, he was the co-recipient of the American Political Science Association’s prestigious Carey McWilliams award to honor “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics.” In 2013, Charlie was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He currently holds the Kevin P. Reilly, Sr. Chair in Political Communication in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State University.

Michael Barone, Senior Contributing Author, is Senior Political Analyst for the Washington Examiner and a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is a contributor to Fox News Channel and co-author of The Almanac of American Politics 1972-2016. He is also the author of Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan, The New Americans: How the Melting Pot Can Work Again, and many other publications in the United States and several other countries. Mr. Barone received the Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in 2010, the Barbara Olsen Award from The American Spectator in 2006 and the Carey McWilliams Award from the American Political Science Association in 1992.

• Why it should be changed:

Cited above.

Thank you!

Loujaco (talk) 20:17, 27 March 2025 (UTC)

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