First Person is a series of quick videos from the Cook Political Report editors exclusively for our site license members. This week, House Editor David Wasserman breaks down our 25th Anniversary edition of the Cook Partisan Voting Index (Cook PVI℠). First introduced in 1997, the Cook PVI measures how each state and district performs at the presidential level compared to the nation as a whole.
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