Margot Penfeld
Senior Political Correspondent
Electoral arithmetic, polling methodology, and the gentle fiction that any of this is predictive
Margot has covered nine election cycles and correctly called exactly zero of them—a consistency she describes as "methodological rigor." She holds an MPA from Georgetown and an unofficial certificate in Reading Too Much Into Exit Polls. Before joining Frosted Fakes News, she wrote for three publications that no longer exist, which she insists is unrelated to her work.