page_title: Dotty Lynch
hierarchical_section_title: Dotty Lynch
caption_attribution_description: English: Dotty Lynch, professor at American University in Washington DC, and former pollster and CBS News reporter
context_page_description: Dotty Lynch was an academic, journalist and political pollster, best known for being the first woman to be chief polltaker for a presidential campaign when she worked for Gary Hart. She also served as political advisor to George McGovern and Jimmy Carter.
  She was the CBS News senior political editor from 1985 to 2005 and was a member of the CBS News/New York Times polling consortium.
  In 2006, she joined American University's School of Communication as executive in residence, and became director of the SOC/SPA joint MA program in Political Communication.
context_section_description: Dotty Lynch (July 24, 1945 – August 10, 2014) was an academic, journalist and political pollster, best known for being the first woman to be chief polltaker for a presidential campaign when she worked for Gary Hart. She also served as political advisor to George McGovern and Jimmy Carter.
  She was the CBS News senior political editor from 1985 to 2005 and was a member of the CBS News/New York Times polling consortium.
  In 2006, she joined American University's School of Communication as executive in residence, and became director of the SOC/SPA joint MA program in Political Communication.
caption: Dotty Lynch, professor at American University in Washington DC
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