Who: Arnon Mishkin, Elections Analyst
When: Tuesday, December 10, 2024 – 5:30pm reception | 6:00pm Presentation
Where: First Congregational Church of Old Lyme
About Arnon:
Building on over forty years of involvement in American politics, Arnon Mishkin leads the Fox News Election Decision Team, which is responsible for analyzing election and polling results and developing models to project election outcomes.
Following the 2016 election, Mishkin and his team, working with the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center, developed the Voter Analysis/AP VoteCast, the first alternative to the Network “Exit Poll,” conducted in all states with statewide elections. It is now regarded as a definitive, timely snapshot of American voter attitudes.
Mishkin has taught and lectured about politics as a Resident Fellow at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, the USC Center for a Political Future, and Northeastern University.
He got his start in politics as a protégé of David Garth of The Garth Group, the firm known for the election of multiple governors of New York, including Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo; New York mayors, including John Lindsay, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, and Michael Bloomberg; as well as Senators John Heinz and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. The firm was known for its pioneering use of television advertising, at a time when most campaigns relied on it minimally.
Formerly a partner with The Boston Consulting Group, Mishkin earned a BA from Yale University and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School.