Ken Rudin Biography

Ken Rudin is one of America’s foremost experts in politics and campaign history. He focuses on all aspects of politics from presidential elections — with the primaries national conventions debates and general election — to the races for the House Senate and state governors. He has analyzed every congressional race in the nation since 1984.
For most of the past 20 years Ken was the eyes and ears of National Public Radio’s political coverage in his position as NPR political editor and resident “Political Junkie.” That was interrupted only by a three-year stint (1994-97) as managing editor of the Hotline a daily political newsletter.
Beginning his NPR career in 1991 he worked with correspondents and reporters both at the network and member-station level. From 2006-2013 Ken was regularly heard on Talk of the Nation in the weekly (and very popular) Political Junkie segment. He also helped create the It’s All Politics podcast which also ran for seven years. In his Political Junkie weekly column — which first appeared on The Washington Post website before coming to NPR.org — Ken previewed the politics of the week and explored campaign history strategy trivia and lore along with his well-known ScuttleButton contest.

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