Arnon Mishkin

Arnon Absalom Mishkin (born c. 1955) is an American management consultant, media personality, and news analyst for Fox News. Mishkin worked as a pollster under political consultant David Garth for the Democratic Party during electoral campaigns for Ed Koch, Jay Rockefeller, and Tom Bradley. Mishkin worked as a partner at the Boston Consulting Group and the Mitchell Madison Group, and now operates his own consultancy firm known as Mishkin Associates. Since 1998, he has been consultant for Fox News as part of their Decision Desk, and has led it since 2008, including the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 United States presidential elections. In 2021, Mishkin also served as a fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. Mishkin was born to Eliezer A. Mishkin and Esther Rubin in Brooklyn, New York. He is Jewish. His father was born in what is now Belarus and emigrated to Mandate Palestine in 1937 before moving to the United States. He later worked as a professor of applied physics at the Polytechnic Institute of New York. Mishkin's mother was from Kaunas, Lithuania: during World War II, the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania from 1940 and subsequently, Nazi Germany moved to occupy the country, establishing the Kovno Ghetto. After the Soviets moved back in during 1944, Rubin left Lithuania through Eastern Europe to Mandate Palestine, where she married Eliezer Mishkin. After relocating to the United States she became a social worker, leading the Washington Heights office of Selfhelp Community Services. and volunteering for YIVO. Mishkin told B’nai Jeshurun in 2001 that his grandparents and many other family members were murdered in the Holocaust. Mishkin has a brother, Jonathan Mishkin. Mishkin graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Mishkin got his start in politics working in New York under political consultant David Garth.