Harry Enten Quotes

Harry Enten

Profession : Journalist

Birth : March 1, 1988

I think the biggest mistake that any of us made in the 2016 cycle was not in the general election, at least folks who look at the polls daily, but actually in the primary.

Harry Enten

We had a kosher home, separate silverware for meat and dairy, kept kosher for Passover obviously.

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My study of past elections in which there was a dominant issue other than the economy indicates that whomever is most trusted on that issue wins the election.

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Campaigns that are steady in the early going have a tendency to remain that way to the end.

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Polling itself, and polling analysis, have a margin of error - and a margin of interpretation; anyone who is too certain should not be trusted.

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I've written on football at the Guardian, American football, obviously. I've also written on weather at The Guardian.

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I think we all need a break from politics once in a while.

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I love Election Night.

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I'll never stop loving Election Night.

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In case you couldn't tell, I love elections.

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I enjoy getting to know the candidates in state and local contests in a way that only midterm and off-year elections allow.

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Romney was about as conservative as George W Bush in 2000.

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A cohort's 'liberalism' or 'conservatism' is dependent on the success of the presidential administration they come of age under.

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President Obama's team clearly dominated the get-out-the-vote campaign in 2012, which may very well have won him the key state of Florida.

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Claire McCaskill's endorsement of Obama in 2008 was particularly memorable.

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Much of the establishment was actually encouraging Obama to run in 2008.

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Primary voters can get confused between candidates whose ideology is very similar, so they look to the party elders.

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Riding a wave of anti-establishment and anti-Obama anger, Tea Party candidates knocked off Democrats and Republicans alike.

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Ken Cuccinelli became the first Virginia major party candidate to lose a gubernatorial election when his party did not control the White House in 40 years. He lost to Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who is about as popular in Virginia as the Dallas Cowboys.

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Democratically-controlled states such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, and New York have passed significant gun control laws. Yet, even here, there has been political fallout.

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