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What is a Political Pundit? What’s their job? Are they real political journalists or frauds? Political pundit is a term used to describe a learned person that offers opinion or commentary in an authoritatively compelling manner on political events. Although not always, a political pundit is considered to be a critic and/or an expert (or a claimed expert). The common goal of these commentators is to offer a specific opinion shading one particular party, leading extremely left or right of the Democratic/Republican political parties. "Political Quickie: How to be a Political Pundit" Political pundits are comprised of experienced and unexperienced political journalists, former politicians, doctors, academics, etc . Generally, they will choose a 'news of the day' in the political world and either research factually correct information to back up their narrative or not and publish a 'hot take'. This can look like news broadcasts, YouTube videos, X (Twitter) p...