Harry Joe Enten (born March 1, 1988) is an American journalist best known for his former role as a senior political writer and analyst for the website ''

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'' and his current job as a senior writer and analyst for '' CNN Politics''. He was described by the ''

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'' as being of a new generation of

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, focusing on

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instead of reporting from the campaign trail.

Early life and education

Enten was raised in a

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family in the Riverdale neighborhood of

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. Harry 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. He attended

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. He is the nephew, by marriage, of singer-songwriter

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. Enten graduated magna cum laude, and

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from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

in 2011. Enten chose to attend Dartmouth at least partially due to New Hampshire's status as the first-in-the-nation primary. Enten began publishing a

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called ''Margin of Error'', and held an internship at

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Political Unit in Washington, D.C. Prior to working for ''

'', Enten was a journalist for ''

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''.

''FiveThirtyEight''

Along with

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and Walter Hickey, Enten was one of the first people

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hired when ''FiveThirtyEight'' relaunched under

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. He mostly wrote politics articles for FiveThirtyEight, but he occasionally wrote weather pieces. Enten was also one of the co-hosts of the FiveThirtyEight politics podcast, alongside host Jody Avirgan and fellow co-hosts Nate Silver and Clare Malone. He announced on February 5, 2018 that he was leaving ''FiveThirtyEight'' to join CNN's Politics team as a senior political writer and analyst.

''The Forecast Fest''

From April 2019 to March 2020

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and Harry Enten produced a podcast called ''The Forecast Fest'' together. It was about the

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References

External links

CNN Profiles: Harry EntenThe Forecast Fest
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