Steven Shepard

Senior campaigns and elections editor

Steven Shepard

Steven Shepard is POLITICO’s senior campaign and elections editor and chief polling analyst. In this role, he serves as a political editor and develops POLITICO’s Race Ratings for the Electoral College and races for Senate, House and governor's office. He also writes extensively about political polling and public opinion.

Since joining POLITICO in March 2014, he helped create Campaign Pro, which delivers around-the-clock coverage of the most competitive races across the country. In the 2016 election cycle, Shepard served as editor of The POLITICO Caucus.

Shepard joined POLITICO from National Journal Hotline, a daily political tipsheet, where he served as editor-in-chief.

Steven Shepard