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Ezra Klein
I’m doing my best to come up with new ways to say that people shouldn’t read too much into what the Dow does on any particular day while, at the same time, writing a story about what the Dow did on that particular day.
Replace “Dow” with “polls” and you have the dilemma that faces your average campaign reporter for about 16 months of any given two years.
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more. More by Ezra Klein
