‘The Rain Man of politics’

By Jennifer J. Foster

Published: May 6, 2008

Anderson Cooper asked John King how he knows so much about all the varied counties in all the states across the country.

King said that one of the benefits of having done this for 20 years is that he has been to many of these places “across this great country.“ In addition, he said, he knows people like Cooper will ask questions like that, so he does a little homework before Election Night, King said.

“You’re like the Rain Man of politics,“ Cooper said.

... In a good way.