Arnon Mishkin Biography
Arnon Mishkin is a Fox News commentator, management consultant, and media personality. Mishkin worked for the Democratic Party as a pollster for political consultant David Garth during the election campaigns of Ed Koch, Jay Rockefeller, and Tom Bradley.
How old is Arnon Mishkin? – Age
He is 67 years old as of 2021. He was born in 1955 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. His real name is Arnon Absalom Mishkin.
Arnon Mishkin Family
Mishkin was born to Eliezer A. Mishkin and Esther Rubin. He is a Jew. His father was born in what is now Belarus and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1937 before settling in America. Later, he served as an applied physics professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. Mishkin’s mother was from Kaunas, Lithuania, which was held by the Soviet Union from 1940 until Nazi Germany invaded the nation in 1941, establishing the Kovno Ghetto. Rubin traveled Lithuania across Eastern Europe to Mandate Palestine, where she married Eliezer Mishkin after the Soviets returned in 1944.
She became a social worker after coming to the United States, running the Washington Heights office of Selfhelp Community Services, and volunteering for YIVO. In 2001, Mishkin told B’nai Jeshurun that his grandparents and other relatives were killed in the Holocaust. Jonathan Mishkin is Mishkin’s brother.
Arnon Mishkin Education
Mishkin attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and graduated with honors. He graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts and Harvard Business School with a Master of Business Administration.
Arnon Mishkin Wife – Children
In November 1986, Mishkin married Susan Ellen Fine, the vice president of development at Olympia and York Properties. The ceremony was performed at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Boston by Rabbi Ben-Zion Gold of the Conservative Jewish Jewish Theological Seminary of America. Allison and Pamela Mishkin are the couple’s two daughters. Since the late 1980s, the Mishkin’s have been members of the B’nai Jeshurun synagogue in Manhattan. Mishkin is a registered Democratic Party member in New York, according to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
Arnon Mishkin 2020
Mishkin was the head of the Fox News Decision Desk for the 2020 presidential election in the United States. This is the group in charge of informing Fox News viewers of the election results. The Desk attracted some attention in the run-up to the election as the principal American network catering to a Republican Party-supporting audience. Mishkin and Dana Blanton were the leading Fox News voices doubting Donald Trump’s chances of re-election in his re-election campaign against Joe Biden. Along with the Associated Press, the two were instrumental in developing the new VoteCast alternative to exit polls.
Arnon Mishkin Career
Mishkin began his career in politics as a political consultant for David Garth in New York. Garth’s team first worked for Democratic Party politicians, including Jay Rockefeller’s gubernatorial and senatorial campaigns in West Virginia, as well as Mark Dayton’s Senate campaign in Minnesota. In the 1982 California gubernatorial race, the business also assisted Tom Bradley, then the Democratic Mayor of Los Angeles, in his campaign for Governor of California.
Many attributed Bradley’s lack of campaign success when compared to polling predictions to what is now known as the “Bradley effect” — the theory that some White American voters would say they were undecided to avoid social ostracism but were planning to vote for the opponent, skewing polling numbers. John Lindsay, Ella Grasso, Brendan Byrne, and Mike Bloomberg were among the Garth team’s other electoral campaigns. Mishkin worked in the news industry as well as for political candidates, first as a general editor at NBC News in the 1980s and then moved to the Fox Corporation in 1998.
As the information age gained traction, he continued to work with the Boston Consulting Group, advising Forbes and the Associated Press on internet marketing and strategy. The 2000 US presidential election, which saw George W. Bush win, was contentious, with Florida still undecided on election night; the case eventually went to the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. Bush’s cousin, John Prescott Ellis, led the Fox News Decision Desk on election night, but stepped down in the aftermath and was replaced by Mishkin, who had previously served on his team.
Mishkin kept his position under the radar until an on-air dispute during the 2012 presidential election in the United States. The debate over the Fox News Decision Desk calling the closely contested state of Ohio early for Obama erupted on air, with commentator Karl Rove objecting and anchor Megyn Kelly walking off set to Mishkin’s operation room and confronting him on the confidence of his call, which Mishkin confirmed with a “99.95 percent.” Former Fox Business commentator Eric Bolling said that Mishkin and his staff were pessimistic about Donald Trump’s chances of defeating Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, while Mishkin has denied this. As a supporter of the Democratic Party, Mishkin voted for Hillary Clinton during the election.
Arnon Mishkin Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.