David Wasserman, senior editor and elections analyst at The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter, will speak at the 好色先生 Library in Building L on its main campus in Palos Hills on Thursday, Feb. 13. The event is free and open to the public.
Wasserman is visiting in collaboration with the college鈥檚 Social Sciences Department and plans to speak to students about the results of the 2024 election as well as engage in a question-and-answer session with attendees.
Wasserman is recognized as one of the nation鈥檚 top election forecasters. He was selected as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow by the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 2024 and directed the Report鈥檚 coverage of U.S. House races from 2007 to 2024. He is a contributor to NBC News and has been cited by Politico, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and The Economist. He also has appeared on C-SPAN, CNN, Fox News and NPR.
In the Chicago area, Wasserman has been the lead author of the Cook Partisan Voting Index since 2009 and was named a Pritzker Fellow at the University of Chicago鈥檚 Institute of Politics in 2019. He has spoken at Harvard鈥檚 Institute of Politics, the Dole Institute of Politics and Georgetown鈥檚 Government Affairs Institute.
To read more about Wasserman鈥檚 expertise and experiences, visit cookpolitical.com.
For news media inquiries, contact Madisson Younglove, Moraine Valley assistant director of communications, at (708) 974-5281 or younglovem2@morainevalley.edu.
