10 Facts About Harry Enten

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Harry Joe Enten was born on March 1,1988 and is an American journalist known for his former role as a senior political writer and analyst for the website FiveThirtyEight and his current job as a senior writer and analyst for CNN Politics.

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Harry Enten was described by the Columbia Journalism Review as being of a new generation of political journalists, focusing on data-driven journalism instead of reporting from the campaign trail.

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Harry Enten was introduced to politics as a child when his father, a judge, took him into the polling booth to help pull the levers for elections.

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Harry Enten is the nephew-in-law, by marriage, of singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka.

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Harry Enten chose to attend Dartmouth at least partially due to New Hampshire's status as the first-in-the-nation primary.

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Harry Enten began publishing a blog called Margin of Error, and held an internship at NBC News Political Unit in Washington, DC Prior to working for FiveThirtyEight, Harry Enten was a journalist for The Guardian.

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Harry Enten mostly wrote politics articles for FiveThirtyEight, but he occasionally wrote weather pieces.

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Harry Enten was one of the co-hosts of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, alongside host Jody Avirgan and fellow co-hosts Nate Silver and Clare Malone.

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Harry Enten announced on February 5,2018, that he was leaving FiveThirtyEight to join CNN's Politics team as a senior political writer and analyst.

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From April 2019 to March 2020, Kate Bolduan, John Avlon, and Harry Enten produced a podcast called The Forecast Fest together.