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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.[2][3] She also served as political advisor to George McGovern and Jimmy Carter.[4]
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.[5]
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.