Man, you don't see profiles of people in the media -- or of anyone, really -- like this one too often. In short, NBC political director Chuck Todd -- husband of Webb for Senate communications director Kristian Denny Todd -- is the Mr. Spock (or maybe Data from The Next Generation?) of U.S. politics, with the valuable (and rare) ability to "take the minutiae and make it sound like English for laypeople who haven't been following the DNC delegate rules for 20 years."
Not bad for a 36-year-old political junkie who had a successful "career out of the limelight" but has now become "the campaign season's most improbable TV star." For anyone wanting to follow in Chuck's footsteps, how do you do it?
1. Be brilliant
2. Be "genial"
3. Have a photographic memory for politics
4. Grow up watching a "conservative father and a liberal cousin often [getting] sloshed and [arguing] about politics. Ha.
5. Leave college six credits short of graduation (actually, Chuck Todd says this is "not the proudest thing on my r+¬sum+¬."
Anyway, congratulations to Chuck "Spock" Todd, keep up the great work, and don't let the turkeys - the political campaign hacks trying to tell you you're "in the tank" one way or the other, that is -- get you down!
Of all the talking heads, he's the only one I can think of who's been consistently professional in his demeanor while conveying information in a "teaching" analytical manner.
Glad to know that this election year brought him into the limelight and professionally has "set" his career. Without knowing more I'd say it couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.